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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)10. Good perspective and analysis.
Ms. Reid writes:
...an openness to the aspirations of racial, ethnic and religious minorities will always produce a fierce backlash among the countrys majority population and cost the party dearly, have proven thrice true in the modern erain the bloody political aftermath of Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama. All three marched the country forward on race, culture and economics, only to cede federal and state governmental power for years to the Republican right, which quickly proceeded, each time, to reward the rich and the powerful on the backs of their working class supporters who just wanted to feel like winners again.
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A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
DFW
Nov 2016
OP
I think she's using the word as shorthand for "old school USSR, only with BMWs and high fashion"
MADem
Nov 2016
#15
LOL--most of the "Obama Scolds" here (most of whom have departed or been tossed over the side)
MADem
Nov 2016
#16
Hillary's not terribly "right." She's a product of her times, and has a JFK attitude on defense.
MADem
Nov 2016
#18
I don't think so. I think she is left of him on social programs, particularly women/kids issues.
MADem
Nov 2016
#20
Attacking Hillary and letting Trump win was not the way to move the Democratic Party left.
athena
Nov 2016
#26