Media Agree: Democrat Debate Shows Party Shift to Far Left
by JOEL B. POLLAK
BREITBART.COM
27 Jun 2019
Mainstream media analysis of the first night of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate agreed across-the-board that the party has shifted so far to the left that it is unrecognizable from the party it was in the 1990s.
The New York Times led with a front-page story, “Democrats Split on How Far Left to Nudge Nation.”
Not a debate headline that helps the party’s electability. pic.twitter.com/CVFbf9TnNs
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) June 27, 2019
The Los Angeles Times — hardly a conservative outlet — noted, in an article titled “This is not your father’s Democratic Party: Debate shows how leftward it has moved”:
The Democratic Party opened its 2020 presidential debates with a remarkably policy-focused exchange that illustrated how consistently to the left they have moved.
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The shift in the party goes beyond economics. As the debate made clear, it includes gun control, abortion, climate change and immigration, among other issues. On each of those, candidates took positions to the left of those embraced by either of the last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who was barely mentioned by any of the candidates.
Rather than Clinton’s call for abortion to be “safe, legal and rare,” for example, the debate featured candidates stressing that the universal healthcare plans they backed would include public funds to pay for abortions for poor women.
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