Social Policy Review

Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis Before the Democrats get carried away with the prosecution of Trump, they better go back in time and take a look at why they blew it in 2016 with Hillary Clinton. My sense is that they haven’t learned a thing. While they might get rid of Trump as the Republican frontrunner, it’s not inconceivable that another Republican could slip into the race and defeat Biden. In October 2017, a team of progressive researchers published “ Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis ,” which probed the causes of the disastrous 2016 election defeat. The report came in the wake of the party leadership’s failure to do its own autopsy. In a cover story for The Nation , William Greider wrote that the “Autopsy” is “an unemotional dissection of why the Democrats failed so miserably, and it warns that the party must change profoundly or else remain a loser.” Now, “Democratic Autopsy: One Year Later” evaluates how well the Democratic Party has done in charting a new...

Did Bernie Sanders Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency? By  Robert Wheel In:  2016 President ,  2020 President Posted October 12, 2017 After months out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton edged back into view recently with two fits of activity. The first was an announcement that her voters should read Verrit, a website managed by a former Clinton digital strategist that purports to post verified facts for the 65.8 million people who voted for her. One of the site’s first such facts was that Bernie Sanders  helped put Donald Trump in the White House . Later on, an excerpt from Clinton’s new book leaked, in which she blames Sanders for hobbling her in the general election, though she seems far more circumspect about why she lost in general. Still, this all begs the question,  did Bernie Sanders really put Donald Trump in the White House ? To answer that question, first we need to acknowledge the limitations of such an inquiry. Individual presidential elec...