How the Demorcatic party has no ideas

Weekly Standard - The Stupid Party

Written over a year ago, it gives a history of liberalism that caught in America and the challenge it received from the 'New Left' in the 1960s and 70s. This faction did not catch on with mainstream America, but retained influence over the party by using the universities and, more recently, the internet. Democrats have been a party that lacks identity since the 1980s and there have been various attempts to reunite it, either by 'reframing', by 'getting ideas', by becoming 'realists and pragmatists', or by embracing the New Left. Long article.