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The Last Best Hope?

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The Democratic Party Is a Big Party With Lots of Nodes in It

The University Democratic Party yes culture war party right down to the bottom. But if you actually go to the Democratic politicians culture war is really a rather thin strain. They do have this fundamental problem and they they have done ever since the 1930s. If you're the party that wants government to do things to deliver programs complex programs and raising taxes in order to do it. That's a hard thing to do, so when you got republicans running the show what they want to do with government is largely symbolic or it can be done through the courts. And so it's not a level playing field and it never can be if you've got one party trying to do something with government and the other

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