Hillary Clinton's rendezvous with history: She's returning Dems to their liberal roots -- but will it work in 2016?
Hillary Clinton’s first campaign rally felt like a coming out party for a woman who’d been shoved in a closet back in the 1990s and hadn’t seen much daylight since. Now it’s time -- your time to secure the gains and move ahead.” MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald ably identified five big details Clinton left out of her speech here, so I don’t have to. The legendary 1975 Daily News headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” summed up the country’s attitude to its profligate cultural capital, just as Clinton was coming of age politically. FDR harnessed the power of government to transform the country; Bill Clinton told a cynical nation that “the era of big government is over.” Though Hillary herself promised “smarter, simpler, more efficient" government, inspired perhaps by Stan Greenberg’s advice about how to reach government wary white working class voters, she left no doubt that she saw government as a way to right the wrongs of the last 30 years.
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