Democrats in the Wilderness

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Adam Nagourney: “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 from Arkansas who presented himself as a ‘new Democrat’ — unseated an incumbent president, George H.W. Bush. His 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 working-class Americans.”“For Democrats today, that history offers a glimmer of hope. But it’s also a reminder of how deep a rut the party is in.”