"Making the perfect the enemy of the good."

[JHan]

110. Selective history but this is what is at the heart of the discontent..

I accept there were mistakes made in the third way approach - but that was 20 years ago, and any analysis that doesn't factor into the unique circumstances of 20 years ago is analysis not worth taking seriously. Curiously, the same rigor isn't applied to the Johnson years and the FDR years.

this is the boilerplate meme you will hear repeated over and over and over again by them:

"Bill Clinton is evil because he signed NAFTA and allowed China too much rank in the WTO and he signed the Crime Bill and he did welfare reform and he was the only one who abandoned WWC, and he abandoned blacks too, and he repealed all of Glass Steagall and he allowed Wall St to fuck over everybody and he is the reason the crash happened in 2008 and then Obama came along and he was Bill Clinton 2.0 because he didn't reinstate all of Glass Steagall and hey let's face it Dems and Repubs are the same cuz they don't care and what we need are outsiders who aren't beholden to anyone because fuck these insiders and their establishment politics and that's why we need populists because people are tired of all these D.C types and centrists FUCK THE THIRD WAY" - Predictable right?

That's what you get.