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2016-11-13 Home Front: Politix
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich Threatens Creation of Third Party
Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talked about creating a third party if the Democratic Party does not move in a more progressive direction.

“The Democratic Party can no longer be the same; it has been repudiated,” Reich said on a conference call with members from the progressive grassroots group Democracy for America. “This has been a huge refutation of establishment politics, and the political organization has got to be changed. … If the Democratic Party can’t do it, we’ll do it through a third party.”

The Democratic Party is in an all-out civil war between the more progressive wing of the party and the more corporate wing of the party.

Some in the party are blaming progressives who supported Bernie Sanders for refusing to rally behind Hillary Clinton.

“The Sanders people should be mad at themselves,” said one well-connected Democratic strategist to the Hill. “If they had come out to vote, Donald Trump wouldn’t be president.”

Others say that the corporate wing of the party has to be purged to appeal to more working-class voters.

“Everybody in the building needs to be fired immediately,” Cenk Uygur, the host of the progressive political commentary show The Young Turks, told the Hill.

It is unknown who will lead the Democratic Party as the party looks forward to the midterm elections in 2018 and then the 2020 presidential election. But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“There were people who felt left out of the economy over the last eight years, who were never able to get back on their feet–blue collar men and women,” former Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) said. “Donald Trump was able to capture them in terms of emotion and sentiment.”
Posted by Pappy 2016-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

That's one explanation. Or maybe, just maybe, those people simply weren't buying what you were selling.
Posted by SteveS 2016-11-13 01:16||   2016-11-13 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talked about creating a third party if the Democratic Party does not move in a more progressive direction.

I've just thought of the perfect name for them.
Posted by charger 2016-11-13 01:31||   2016-11-13 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Eight years of a indolent, narcissistic, golfing POTUS had of course, nothing to do with it.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-13 01:34||   2016-11-13 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 How about the American Labor Party. Modelled on the current UK Labour Party.
Posted by phil_b 2016-11-13 02:07||   2016-11-13 02:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd love for little Bob to start another third party and commence to railing again, he's entertaining in a small way.
Posted by Shipman 2016-11-13 07:11||   2016-11-13 07:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Are the Communists having buyers remorse? What makes them think they will be anymore successful on their own, openly acknowledging what they are?
Posted by Omomort Cheager7040 2016-11-13 07:44||   2016-11-13 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 But one thing Democrats agree on is that they were ineffective at turning out older, working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

They did turn them out, only to vote for the other side. And the one's you called simply played the game you taught them - just say what they want to hear because otherwise they'll call you racist, sexists, homophobic. They learned the game be big boys play, lie though your teeth (see - Affordable Care Act)
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-13 08:00||   2016-11-13 08:00|| Front Page Top

#8 When they make a new party for the "progressives" from the demoncratic party, they should name it "The Democratic Socialist Workers Party".
Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-13 09:35||   2016-11-13 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Reich is just the right man to start up a Socialist party on a National level in the United States.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-13 09:44||   2016-11-13 09:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Name the new party "The Lollipop Guild".
Posted by Penguin of the Desert 2016-11-13 10:34||   2016-11-13 10:34|| Front Page Top

#11 I was gonna fly in with a snarky height joke, but I see Charger already won this thread. Take a bow, my man!
Posted by Raj 2016-11-13 12:31||   2016-11-13 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Reich is just the right man to start up a Socialist party on a National level in the United States.

Sensei, I feel you should've worked the word "third" into it somewhere.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-13 12:43||   2016-11-13 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Someone's got to represent the little people.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2016-11-13 18:32||   2016-11-13 18:32|| Front Page Top

#14 One of the more amusing stories I've out of this is that in western PA, the heaviest turnout precincts for Trump also had the heaviest door to door Hillary effort. That would seem to say that when the Hillary people came knockin', voters decided to go down and vote for Trump.
Posted by ed in texas 2016-11-13 19:05||   2016-11-13 19:05|| Front Page Top

#15 I was gonna fly in with a snarky height joke, but I see Charger already won this thread. Take a bow, my man!


Thanks, Raj!

(Bows, throws out back)

That would seem to say that when the Hillary people came knockin', voters decided to go down and vote for Trump.

They screwed up. They reminded voters that Hillary was the alternative to Trump.
Posted by charger 2016-11-13 19:20||   2016-11-13 19:20|| Front Page Top

#16 My home town is a reliably purple spot in Oklahoma. After the Clinton manipulated won the primaries all of the the Bernie signs disappeared. Weeds and grasshoppers replaced them.
Posted by magpie 2016-11-13 20:14||   2016-11-13 20:14|| Front Page Top

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