Reddit reviews It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition

So is this the next evolution of Hillary's It Take's A Village?

>Honestly, I felt that she was trying to thread the needle between sounding like she supported populist positions while not actually supporting them.

And I thought she was doing the opposite; trying hard not to sound like she supported populist ideas while actually supporting them. I mean, she wrote the book It Takes a Village, and she was the one who was working on universal healthcare when her husband was in office.


>Unfortunately, this really wasn't enough to assuage the progressives of the party who felt that this really was their moment and felt that they had been cheated in the primary.

It was mostly young people who felt cheated because they literally can't remember when Hillary was vilified for pushing populist ideas, while the older generations and establishment of course didn't back the guy who advertised that he was a socialist because they knew that was a bad plan in the general election.

>...the President is mostly about setting policy. Even if a President cannot get his/her policy enacted, the office itself provides a powerful bully pulpit to drive national policy.

Agreed, but having knowledge of the process and realistic goals is also key.

I also agree that Trump may be good long term, but only if Dems can get behind a single candidate who is more moderate; it isn't about the enthusiasm of the base but instead about generating enthusiasm among people who didn't bother to vote before and people who care about their own job more than anything else.

Also, if Hillary had won, the Republicans would have just dug in deeper as the party of obstruction; at least now they are on display as having no unified plan and cultivating the support of deplorables.