The left’s rout was consummated in the ’90s by Bill Clinton, who managed to retain fairly solid left support during his two terms, despite signing two trade treaties devastating to labor, in the form of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the WTO agreements; despite the lethal embargo against Iraq and NATO’s war on Yugoslavia; despite successful onslaughts on welfare programs for the poor and on constitutional freedoms. The Bush years saw near extinction of the left’s capacity for realistic political analysis
- Alexendar Cockburn
— Fifty Years After Greensboro, Whatever Happened to the American Left? : Chronicles: A Magazine of American CultureShort URL for this post: http://tmblr.co/ZRvhbyV4OMV
