{"id":20371,"date":"2015-04-15T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20371"},"modified":"2015-04-15T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:18:15","slug":"hillary-clinton-an-empire-of-progressives-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/15\/hillary-clinton-an-empire-of-progressives-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton: an empire of progressives strikes back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US edition of <em>The Guardian<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The UK Guardian story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/apr\/13\/hillary-clinton-presidential-candidate-democrat-progressives-reaction?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton: an empire of progressives strikes back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leftwingers hold back their endorsements for Hillary Clinton until she presents a clearer campaign \u2018vision\u2019 as the only Democrat in the running so far<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n\u201cI was not particularly impressed with it,\u201d said Zephyr Teachout, a New York Democrat who ran for governor in 2014, warning on Twitter it was \u201csurprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy [and] vision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Teachout said she had not given up on the chance of more progressive candidates entering the race \u2013 or of Clinton taking a more populist approach on issues such as free trade and banking reform, on which Democratic leadership has tended to be more economically liberal in the past.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nDe Blasio, who ran Clinton\u2019s 2000 campaign, echoed the view that such pressure may help shape a bolder Clinton agenda, even without the formal entry of more radical opponents like Warren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly what\u2019s happening in the progressive [wing] of the Democratic party is a demand for our candidates to come forward with a vision,\u201d he said on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press. \u201cThat\u2019s creating some of the same positive pressure you see in the primary process.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am proud to be a part of the effort to put positive pressure on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign.\u00a0 You wimpy progressives who immediately fell in line without making any demands can thank me later for making sure our values get represented by the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US edition of The Guardian has the story Hillary Clinton: an empire of progressives strikes back. Leftwingers hold back their endorsements for Hillary Clinton until she presents a clearer campaign \u2018vision\u2019 as the only Democrat in the running so far . . . \u201cI was not particularly impressed with it,\u201d said Zephyr Teachout, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20372,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions\/20372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}