Mickey Kaus at the time wrote the Democrats needed to get out of promoting the 1960s counter-culture policies.
At the time I was a Democrat and I felt the party should move to where the American people were, to move to the middle.
Welfare reform, school choice, support for the death penalty - stuff like that I found very attractive and I thought the DLC might breathe new life into a moribund party.
Sad to say, it slid back into its bad old ways, like returning to a pair of comfortable slippers. For liberals, it was just too much change to bear.
Welfare reform, school choice, support for the death penalty - stuff like that I found very attractive and I thought the DLC might breathe new life into a moribund party.
The problem with that scenario is that it wasn't ever going to happen - and Clinton only came to welfare reform after the 1994 mid terms, and never was a supporter of school choice.