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Jul 1, 2022 · How the Democrats Traded the New Deal for Neoliberalism. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran for president promising to “end welfare as we know it.”. This rightward turn was part of a broader attempt by the Democrats to craft a “progressive neoliberalism” — whose “progressivism” included abandoning its working-class base.
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Jun 11, 2019 · Democrats and neoliberalism. These days, the meaning of “neoliberal” has become fuzzy. But it has a long history of association with the Democratic Party.
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Mar 28, 2022 · March 28, 2022. During Nancy Pelosi’s first terms in Congress in the late 1980s and early 90s, few Democratic leaders questioned the need to tack to the center to win over the prized white middle-class voters who could, they believed, make them the majority party once again. After the debacle of the 1994 midterm, Bill Clinton adopted that ...
Jan 28, 2020 · Nick Hanauer: The Democratic Party was either complicit in or leading, in many cases, a lot of the neoliberal ideas and policies that have created the inequality that we find in our economy today. James Kwak: The Democratic Party is the most important political party in the world. That’s why it’s especially important today that the ...
Dec 23, 2019 · At the same time, with the losses of Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984, and Michael Dukakis in 1988, Democrats began to think they had to embrace neoliberalism as a path out of the political ...
Aug 5, 2022 · The word ‘neoliberal’ gets thrown around a lot, often with differing and even contradictory meanings. Here, a political economist explains the origins and evolution of this complex concept.
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Dec 3, 2022 · There was an absence, by contrast, of ideas among Democrats about how to rethink their agenda of New Deal liberalism when its solutions seemed wanting; not only does this lack of ideas help to explain the passage of economic policies in 1981 that consolidated neoliberalism, but it also fed a debate among Democrats about their party’s future that would further institutionalise neoliberalism.
