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Will Marshall, another Clinton cohort, concurred. “It would have been nice to see Dems not take part in an obvious attempt to pressure a former Democratic president to come to a MAGA show trial,” said Marshall, the founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, a center-left think tank that served as a policy incubator during the Clinton years.
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Marshall, the PPI founder, said the new cohort of Democrats steering the party to the left are asking the wrong questions.
“If you’re a Democrat today, you have to be asking yourself why we’re in the minority, why do we lack the tools to stop Trump from criminalizing our political differences? And the answer is the party is shrinking,” he said. “The dilemma isn’t how to keep moving left. It’s how to get back the voters Clinton won twice in the ‘90s.”
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