Party of Clinton Looks Different Than in 1992
No kidding. Time moves, people and priorities change - the thing that most don’t get when making these contrasts is that the modern Democrat party is the best reflection of what our country has become, and how it is now.
PHILADELPHIA — As Bill Clinton prepares to take the stage here Tuesday night at the Democratic convention, he’ll be appealing to a party that’s drifted far from the more moderate, new Democratic movement that he led during the 1990s en route to two terms as president.
The question is whether the 42nd president in 2016 can resonate with a more progressive party, while still reaching the conservative Democrats who enthusiastically backed him and now say they won’t support his wife.
Clinton has spoken at every nominating convention since 1988, and a review of his remarks demonstrates just how different the party’s message is today.