A piece on the definitions of "progressive" in Slate. I'm bemused by what the movement from Clinton's work for McGovern in 1972 to the current state of the party says about our politics and our society.
McGovern, for those too young to remember, ran on a platform of, among other things, ending the war in Vietnam and a guaranteed minimum income. He also got defeated in a landslide, losing his own state IIRC. Hillary and Bill Clinton were Texas organizers for McGovern, may even have been the state chairs but memory fogs. Also for "amnesty [for draft dodgers], abortion, and legalization of pot|".
I'd forgotten, but McGovern beat Eugene McCarthy, Shirley Chisolm, the first black presidential candidate, and Patsy Mink, the first Asian-American candidate.
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