UNDERNEWS: Democrats finally dumping Bill Clinton

November 2, 2018

Democrats finally dumping Bill Clinton

New York Times - As Democrats search for their identity in the Trump era, one aspect has become strikingly clear: Mr. Clinton is not part of it. Just days before the midterm elections, Mr. Clinton finds himself in a kind of political purgatory, unable to overcome past personal and policy choices now considered anathema within the rising liberal wing of his party. The former president, once such a popular political draw that he was nicknamed his party’s ‘explainer-in-chief,’ has only appeared at a handful of private fund-raisers to benefit midterm candidates, according to people close to him.

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Anonymous said...: As usual the Dems are a day late and a dollar short. How many years of Democratic Party decline at every level of government will it take before the DNC leadership finally recognizes that Clintonism has been an economic, political and cultural disaster that led directly to the election of the beast Trump? Nothing has shown so clearly the fact that the Democratic party is the graveyard of all progressive movements then the continued prominence of horrid Clinton gang of criminals and degenerates in the party leadership.; November 2, 2018 at 2:07 PM

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