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How our 'new' Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past
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How our 'new' Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past

New York Post·Victor Davis Hanson·22 days ago
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For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable: They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour workweek, disability insurance and Social Security were their trademarks — achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative. They deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights. Presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence. All that is now passé. The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman , roundly despised by Democratic leaders. Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.…

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