Can Liberalism Survive Clinton? The Crisis of the “New” Center

This should be the New Democratic moment. Clinton II began with the banishing of liberals, their places filled by wall-to-wall New Dems: for Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles; for George Stephanopoulos, Rahm Emanuel; for Robert Reich (in his domestic policy maven role), Bruce Reed. A few months later, the British election results suggested that New Democracy could have global reach, that it might even evolve into a latter-day ism. Moreover, it wasn’t as if anyone else was advancing a program. Ch...