{"id":2877,"date":"2008-06-20T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2008-06-20T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T13:43:24","slug":"farewell-new-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/farewell-new-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, New Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debbieschlussel.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/when_your_publi.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> | Kimberly A. Strassel | June 20, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Listen closely to all those cheers for newly crowned nominee Barack Obama, and in the background you&#8217;ll catch the notes of a funeral march. Resting, if not in peace, are the New Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Illinois senator&#8217;s primary victory marked the end of many things, and one looks to be his party&#8217;s 20-year experiment with ideological centrism. The New Dems are still out there, still urging their party to fight its natural liberal instincts. But who&#8217;s listening? Buoyed by the Republican implosion, wild for their retro nominee, the intellectual soul of the Democratic Party is now firmly left.<\/p>\n<p>The New Democrats were born in the 1980s, in response to Ronald Reagan&#8217;s triumphs. Prominent Democrats worried the party was out of touch, and created the Democratic Leadership Council. Its members were foreign-policy hawks, unafraid of cultural conservatism, and preached economic centrism. Their poster boy: Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debbieschlussel.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/when_your_publi.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal | Kimberly A. Strassel | June 20, 2008 Listen closely to all those cheers for newly crowned nominee Barack Obama, and in the background you&#8217;ll catch the notes of a funeral march. Resting, if not in peace, are the New Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}