Bernie Sanders lambasts 'absolute failure' of Democratic party's strategy

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15. Yes, Bill Clinton, and some other moderates, and corporatists have a few things to answer for.

The late Bill Greider had much to say on the subject. Below is taken from "William Greider Knew What Ailed the Democratic Party
…and how to fix it."
By John Nichols {The Nation, December 27, 2019}

The parties have begun to delineate themselves a bit more in recent years. But not sufficiently, as Bill explained in scorchingly honest articles for The Nation. He spoke inconvenient truths about the roots of our current politics, especially when he explained that “the Democratic Party’s crude betrayal of the working class was carried out by Bill Clinton and Al Gore when those ‘New Democrats’ won power in 1992. The Clinton-Gore administration swiftly enacted NAFTA, with Republican votes, sealing the deal with Republican policy-makers and selling out the remnants of organized labor.” Bill recognized the necessity of understanding this history in order to explain the rise of Trump and Trumpism.

Above all, Bill argued that for Democrats to seize the high ground, morally and electorally, they had to stop being a “managerial party” and reacquaint themselves with the message FDR delivered during an epically successful 1936 reelection run. That was the year when Roosevelt declared that:

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

https://www.thenation.com/article/william-greider-economic-policy/