Posted on 07/23/2025 8:49:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The party’s last rebuilding effort took nearly a decade and followed debilitating ideological battles. Some in the party see it as a model, up to a point.
The Democratic Party had just lost another presidential election. It was hemorrhaging support among blue-collar voters and was seen as out of touch on cultural issues. It was struggling to find its next generation of leaders. The future seemed bleak.
The year was 1984. Eight years later, Bill Clinton — a moderate governor fromArkansas who presented himself as a “New Democrat” — was elected to the White House, unseating a Republican president, George H.W. Bush. Mr. Clinton’s victory was the culmination of a campaign by a renegade organization of moderate Democrats, most from the South and the West, to move the party to the center, recruit new candidates and win back the working-class Americans who had abandoned it
For Democrats distraught about the state of their party nine months after President Trump recaptured the presidency — who are mired in infighting over why they lost, how the party should change to become competitive again and who might lead them back to power — that long-ago chapter in the party’s history offers a glimmer of hope.
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With AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Mamdani as the face of the 2020's radical democrat party, you are living a pipe dream.
they weren’t insane back then...
Unfortunately a good part of the population is insane as well so they have that in their pocket.
Exactly.
“Unfortunately a good part of the population is insane as well so they have that in their pocket.”
Exactly.
Take a look at the 2024 Presidential results. A few scary switches of some states and we could easily be looking at President Harris (shudder) right now.
They weren’t demon possessed then either.
Come out and officially reject God, and Satan and his minions will move in in a heartbeat.
Sounds great! After all NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE THE 1990s right?
Bill Clinton — a moderate governor fromArkansas who presented himself as a “New Democrat”.
He raped 5 women his democrat ways in full view all right.
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