2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but always stayed left to centrist as THAT range shifted.
It might be helpful to do a little immersion in right-wing ideology -- for perspective. Almost all moderate conservatives have been purged from national government and from most of our red state offices and legislatures. The people running our country for the GOP are now virtually all strong to extremist right.
I get that you want HRC to have been what would have been considered far left over most of the past quarter century's shift to the right, but she would not be with us today if she had gone that way. That she's just not a hard-left kind of person, however, does not mean she's ever been with the conservatives.
BTW, I've always been liberal and will die liberal, but neither I nor most liberals today would meet these "criteria" that have been so carefully set to exclude Hillary. So funny, when the right has been sliming us all with "the L-word" for decades.