{"id":18037,"date":"2014-02-20T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2014-02-19T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:53:26","slug":"the-democrats-schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/02\/the-democrats-schism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats’ schism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Democrats are facing a schism in the post-Obama era between its establishment politicians and newly-energetic leftwing progressives.\u00a0 So say political reporters Dan Balz and Philip Rucker.<\/p>\n

Conservatives shouldn\u2019t get too excited:\u00a0 both factions support Hillary Clinton as their next presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Do you think an overtly leftist agenda could elect Mrs. Clinton?\u00a0 What programs do you see that kind of administration pushing?<\/p>\n

From Dan Balz & Philip Rucker,\u00a0 For Democrats looking to post-Obama era, how populist a future? \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With three years remaining in the presidency of Barack Obama, the party he has led since mesmerizing members with his 2008 campaign has begun debating a post-Obama future.<\/p>\n

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Though more united than Republicans, Democrats nevertheless face simmering tensions between the establishment and a newly energized populist wing, led by the unabashed liberalism of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the fiery rhetoric of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n

The schisms are as much stylistic as substantive. But however defined, they offer a challenge to the party\u2019s next leader, whether former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden or any number of lesser-knowns who await a decision by Clinton before making their own.<\/p>\n

All will have to grapple with this reality. The Democratic Party, by various measures of public opinion, has moved to the left in the past decade. But that does not necessarily mean that progressives have become the party\u2019s dominant force or that the policies and messages they advocate can carry the day in a national election.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing moves a party more than copying successful people,\u201d said Andrew Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union, as he pointed to the prominence of de Blasio and Warren. \u201cI think the party tends to drift in the direction of its successful innovators.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Stern cautioned that the bigger test of who holds power inside the party is proving those ideas can attract voters beyond staunchly liberal states or cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is fair to say that more liberal places find politicians first who are more willing to step out on these issues,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it is not a shift until it\u2019s seen to work in Minnesota or Wisconsin or New Mexico or Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a grass-roots group that has helped propel Warren\u2019s rise, said the populist wing of the party is clearly ascendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been consensus in both parties since the 1990s Clinton days where big corporations run the show and both parties suck up to them and everything else falls into place from there,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Elizabeth Warren wing really believes in challenging the current state of who has power and who has influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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