2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Of the remaining 22 contests in the Primary . . . [View all]kaleckim
(651 posts)My god, she and her husband were the two most instrumental people in dragging their party to the right in the 1980's and the 1990's. They rose up with Walmart money, raked in billions in Wall Street and corporate cash since taking office, got their party to turn away from organized labor, fought hard to gut social programs that helped the poor (and bragged about it for years afterwards), fought hard for austerity, fought hard for the WTO, NAFTA, gutting the New Deal financial regulations, "school choice", among countless other things. She has a horribly hawkish foreign policy, on full display recently at AIPAC. She is "progressive" in that she is decent on social issues, libertarians largely are as well. She is right wing in regards to institutional power and economics and always has been. Her followers are largely well off and could give a damn about the impact of the trade model she supports, so that's good enough.