{"id":20450,"date":"2015-04-19T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20450"},"modified":"2015-04-19T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:59:29","slug":"the-populists-capture-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/19\/the-populists-capture-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The populists capture the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Washington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-populists-capture-the-democratic-party\/2015\/04\/15\/917fc7f0-e3ad-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The populists capture the Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A quartet of senators and a dozen members of the House took the stage in a park across from the Capitol midday Wednesday to join hundreds of steelworkers, union faithful and environmentalists in denouncing President Obama\u2019s bid for fast-track approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nBut Obama hasn\u2019t really split the Democrats. They are almost unanimously opposed to him on trade. The upcoming battle over fast-tracking and the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows how dramatically the center of gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To those in the Democratic Party who complain against my outspoken posts against Democratic policies and politicians who I think are wrong, I would like them to consider what activists in the party are accomplishing.\u00a0 When the complainers ask what I expect to accomplish, I can now point to this.<\/p>\n<p>No we aren&#8217;t going to turn the party around in an instant.\u00a0 If we\u00a0 can shift &#8220;dramatically the center of gravity in the Democratic Party&#8221; already, we have accomplished a lot.\u00a0 We need to keep putting on the pressure.\u00a0 If you want to follow the party leaders like sheep to maintain &#8220;unity&#8221;, then you can do so.\u00a0 I&#8217;d prefer to get out in front rather than follow behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the article The populists capture the Democratic Party. A quartet of senators and a dozen members of the House took the stage in a park across from the Capitol midday Wednesday to join hundreds of steelworkers, union faithful and environmentalists in denouncing President Obama\u2019s bid for fast-track approval of the Trans-Pacific [&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-20450","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\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20451,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}