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“Hillary
Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
… Sanders has said
that Hillary Clinton is not a “true progressive” and
many of his supporters seem to agree. It’s one reason that Sanders
keeps performing well in primaries and caucuses, prolonging the
campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But whether that
assessment of Clinton is accurate depends entirely on what it means
to be a true progressive nowadays.
Does it mean voting like
Sanders has, and embracing his agenda? Or does it simply mean
consistently pushing for policies that would significantly advance
progressive causes, like a fairer economy and a cleaner environment?
By the first definition,
Clinton clearly doesn’t qualify as a progressive.
By the second, she clearly
does.
If Sanders is
the standard by which you’re going to decide whether a politician
is a progressive, then almost nobody from the Democratic Party would
qualify. Take Sanders out of the equation, and suddenly Clinton
looks an awful lot like a mainstream progressive — firmly on the
left side of the American ideological spectrum and maybe on the left
side of the Democratic Party’s, as well.
One reason
it’s easy to miss this is that Clinton’s domestic policy agenda
doesn’t include one signature idea or position that’s going to
dominate the headlines or get activists excited. Instead, it’s a
series of proposals that, together, would fortify the social safety
net, strengthen regulation of industry, and bolster public services.
To the extent these programs require new spending, the money would
largely come from new taxes on the wealthy.
… A better indicator of
her instincts is probably her subsequent record as a senator from New
York. According to those same DW-NOMINATE ratings, Clinton was the
chamber’s11th most-liberal member during her tenure. It’s
a crude statistic, but it suggests strongly that she was not just
progressive relative to the Senate. It suggests that she was also
progressive relative to members of her own party.
You can read the opinion piece by Jonathan Cohn here
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