New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats, or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally conservative on economic issues. New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the mid-2010s.

History

Origins

After the landslide defeats by the

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led by

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and

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in the 1980s, a group of prominent Democrats began to believe their party was out of touch and in need of a radical shift in

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and ideas of governance.Wayne LeMieux, The Democrats' New Path, 2006, John F Harris, The Survivor:Bill Clinton in the White House, Random House, 2005, The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was founded in 1985 by Al From and a group of like-minded politicians and strategists. They advocated a political Third Way as an antidote to the electoral successes of

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. The landslide 1984 presidential election defeat spurred centrist Democrats to action, and the DLC was formed. The DLC, an unofficial party organization, played a critical role in moving the Democratic Party's policies to the center of the American political spectrum. Prominent Democratic politicians such as Senators

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and Joe Biden (both future Vice Presidents, and Biden a future President) participated in DLC affairs prior to their candidacies for the 1988 Democratic Party nomination. Hale, Jon F. "The Making of the New Democrats." ''Political Science Quarterly'' 110, no. 2 (1995): 207-221. The DLC did not want the Democratic Party to be "simply posturing in the middle", and instead framed its ideas as "progressive" and as a "Third Way" to address the problems of its era. Examples of the DLC's policy initiatives can be found in ''The New American Choice Resolutions''. Although the New Democrat label was briefly used by a

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reformist group including

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and

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in 1989, the term became more widely associated with the ''New Orleans Declaration'' and policies of the DLC which in 1990 renamed its bi-monthly magazine from ''The Mainstream Democrat'' to ''The New Democrat''. When then-Governor Bill Clinton stepped down as DLC chairman to run for the presidency in the

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, he presented himself as a New Democrat.

First wave

The Watergate Babies from 1974 to the 1978-83 voter "tax revolts" were very similar to Southern Democrats and the Blue Dog Democrats. The first wave sought the votes of White

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Reagan Democrats with the promise of property taxes that would, in part, subsidize start-ups and business ventures in post-industrial economies. This wave crested in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Despite a preponderance of these Democrats in the South, forerunners to "Atari Democrats" in the West and the Northeast applied these policy frameworks to their own post-industrial sectors. After 1985, the Democratic Leadership Council, spearheaded by Clinton, maintained its southeastern emphasis on post-industrial finance and the

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, but canvassed and met with potential "Atari Democrat" campaign donors in the West and the

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. These proponents of the California-New England-South Third Way became the U.S. "New Democrats." Al From, the founder of the DLC and its leader until 2009, had been a staffer for Louisiana Representative Gillis Long. Among the presidents of the DLC were Tennessee Senator

and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. At the

, Clinton was elected as the 42nd President of the United States, ending twelve years of Republican dominance. The

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gave Republicans control of the

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and

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, effectively wiping out Democratic representation in the South and West.

Second wave

Presidency of Bill Clinton

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tax cut and his 1993 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor. New Democrat successes under Clinton, underpinned by the writings of

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on the duality of structure, sustained a unity of opposites that became the hallmark of Third Way political economy. Allusions to this Third Way as syncretic politics and '' unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno'', should be explicated and the concepts assessed in shifting contexts. New Democrats are often regarded to have inspired Tony Blair in the United Kingdom and his policies within the Labour Party as New Labour, as well as prompting the continental conflation of Third Way approaches to social democracy with previous notions of

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. The two were often used interchangeably by political scientists and fostered popular conceptions of

as a social democratic variant of libertarian socialism. Clinton presented himself as a centrist candidate to draw White middle-class voters who had left the Democratic Party for the

. Until 2016 and even after, the Third Way defined and dominated notions of

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in U.S. partisan politics. In 1990, Clinton became the DLC chair. Under his leadership, the DLC founded two-dozen chapters and created a base of support. Running as a New Democrat, Clinton won the

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and

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presidential elections. Legislation signed into domestic law with bipartisan support under President Clinton includes: * The

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(core international agreement signed during Bush Administration without NAALC/NAAEC, required Congressional approval for implementation) * The Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on openly gay people serving in the Armed Forces ( repealed in 2010). * The Defense of Marriage Act that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages (ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013). * The Religious Freedom Restoration Act federal religious discrimination statute. * The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, sometimes referred to as the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill. New Democrats dialectically adopted GOP proposals and platforms during the campaigns for the 1992 Congressional/state elections and

. Below are subsequent Congressional legislative authorships and voting percentages. Please note that both the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act became law three months before the 1996 Congressional/state elections and

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. ''Legislative Authorship'' * 1996 Defense of Marriage Act: Bob Barr (R-GA) (GOP introduction) * 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: John Kasich (R-OH) with Ideas/Provisions from Clinton's 1994 proposal * 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act: John Kasich (R-OH) with Ideas/Provisions from New Democrats * 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act:

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(R-TX), Jim Leach (R-IA), and Thomas Bliley (R-VA) with Ideas/Provisions from New Democrats ''Congressional Democrat Voting Percentages'' * 1996 Defense of Marriage Act: 64% Dem Representatives support & 72% Dem Senators support * 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: 50% Dem Representatives support & 53% Dem Senators support * 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act: 80% Dem Representatives support & 82% Dem Senators support * 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: 75% Dem Representatives support & 84% Dem Senators support The

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, supported by Congressional New Democrats, was responsible for proposing and passing the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which increased Medicare taxes for taxpayers with annual incomes over $135,000, yet also reduced Medicare spending and benefits across all tax brackets. Congressional Republicans demanded even deeper cuts to Medicare, but Clinton twice vetoed their bills. The

in turn taxed individuals earning annual incomes over $115,000, but also defined taxable "small business" earnings as less than approximately $10 million in annual gross revenue, with tax brackets for high-gross incorporated businesses beginning at that number. According to the

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, the revised brackets and categories increased taxes on the wealthiest 1.2% of taxpayers within these new brackets, while cutting taxes on 15 million low-income families and making tax cuts available to 90% of small businesses. "Small businesses" and taxpayer classifications were reconfigured by these new tax brackets. Again, according to the

, these brackets raised the top marginal tax rate from 31% to 40%. Additionally, it mandated that the

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be balanced over a number of years through the implementation of spending restraints. Bill Clinton's promise of welfare reform was passed in the form of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Prior to 2018, critics such as

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contended that Clinton's arguments for the virtues of "negative" notions of "personal responsibility 'New Orleans Declaration'': 'individual responsibility'" propounded within DLC circles during the 1980s, stemmed more from

's and Peggy Noonan's specific conception of "accountability" than any "positive notion of responsibility" or even multifarious approaches to "accountability." Additional critics distinguish the New Democrat idea of "personal responsibility" from arguments over the extent of limitations on government, if any, in platforms that advance social responsibility. The

, the temporary relegation of Hillary Clinton to the global promotion of

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, partisan compromises over this act, conflicts within the Democratic Party, as well as the act's multivalent consequences, all contributed to deliberations over passage and execution of the PRWORA.

Presidency of Barack Obama

In March 2009, Barack Obama, said in a meeting with the New Democrat Coalition that he was a "New Democrat" and a "pro-growth Democrat", that he "supports free and fair trade" and that he was "very concerned about a return to protectionism". Throughout the Obama administration, a "free and

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" attitude was espoused, including in a 2015 trade report entitled ''The Economic Benefits of U.S. Trade'' that noted that free trade "help developing countries lift people out of poverty" and "expand markets for U.S. exports". Throughout Obama's tenure, approximately 1,000 Democrats lost their seats across all levels of government. Specifically, 958 state legislature seats, 62 house seats, 11 Senate seats, and 12 governorships, with a majority of these elected officials identifying as New Democrats. Some analysts such as Henry Eten at '' FiveThirtyEight'', believe this was due to the changing demographic shift, as more Democrats identified as liberal in 2016 than moderate. Consequently, many pundits believed that Obama's tenure marked an end of the New Democrats' dominance in the party.

Recent years

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign

Ahead of the

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, many New Democrats were backing the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the wife of former New Democrat president, Bill Clinton who served as a Senator from New York during the 2000s and as Barack Obama's Secretary of State during the early 2010s. Originally considered to be an expected nominee, Clinton faced an unexpected challenge from Vermont Senator,

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, whose

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garnered the support of

and younger Democrats. Ultimately, Clinton won 34 of the 57 contests, compared to Sanders' 23, and garnered about 55 percent of the vote. Nevertheless, commentators saw the primary as a decline in the strength of New Democrats in the party, and an increasing influence of progressive Democrats within the party. Ahead of the formal announcement of the

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, WikiLeaks published the Democratic National Committee email leak, in which DNC operatives, many of whom were New Democrats, seemed to deride Bernie Sanders' campaign and discuss ways to advance Clinton's nomination, leading to the resignation of DNC chair, and New Democrat member, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other implicated officials. The leak was allegedly part of an operation by the

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to undermine Hillary Clinton. Although the ensuing controversy initially focused on emails that dated from relatively late in the primary, when Clinton was nearing the party's nomination, the emails cast doubt on the DNC's neutrality towards progressive and moderate candidates. This was evidenced by alleged bias in the scheduling and conduct of the debates, as well as controversial DNC–Clinton agreements regarding financial arrangements and control over policy and hiring decisions. Other media commentators have disputed the significance of the emails, arguing that the DNC's internal preference for Clinton was not historically unusual and didn't affect the primary enough to sway the outcome.Heersink, Boris (November 4, 2017)
"No, the DNC didn’t 'rig' the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton"
'' The Washington Post''. Retrieved March 8, 2018. The controversies ultimately led to the formation of a DNC "unity" commission to recommend reforms in the party's primary process.

Decline

Presidency of Joe Biden

The winner of the

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, was Joe Biden, who served as Vice President to Barack Obama. Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States. In the

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, 13 Democrats lost their seats. All thirteen Democrats that lost their seats had won in the 2018 mid-term elections. Of those 13 members, 10 of them were New Democrats. During the

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, the New Democrat Coalition lost its status as the largest ideological coalition in favor of the more left leaning Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Ideology

According to

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, New Democrats tend to identify as fiscally conservative to fiscally moderate and socially liberal. Columnist Michael Lind argued that neoliberalism for New Democrats was the "highest stage" of left liberalism. The counterculture youth of the 1960s became more fiscally conservative in the 1970s and 1980s but retained their cultural liberalism. Many leading New Democrats, including Bill Clinton, started out in the

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wing of the Democratic Party and gradually moved toward the right on economic and military policy. According to historian Walter Scheidel, both major political parties shifted towards promoting free-market capitalism in the 1970s, with

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moving further to the political right than Democrats to the political left. He noted that Democrats played a significant role in the financial deregulation of the 1990s. Anthropologist Jason Hickel and historian Gary Gerstle contended that the neoliberal policies of the Reagan era were carried forward by the Clinton administration, forming a new economic consensus which crossed party lines. According to Gerstle, "across his two terms, Clinton may have done more to free markets from regulation than even Reagan himself had done." New Democrats have faced criticism from those further to the left. In a 2017 BBC interview, Noam Chomsky said that "the Democrats gave up on the working class forty years ago". Political analyst Thomas Frank asserted that the Democratic Party began to represent the interests of the professional class rather than the working class.

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# Jon Ossoff #

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# André Carson #

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# Sean Casten #

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# Val Demings #

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# Chrissy Houlahan #

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# Raul Ruiz #

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(former) # Adam Schiff #

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# Nikema Williams

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(former) # John Carney # Tom Carper (former) # Roy Cooper # Jim Doyle (former) #

Mike Easley Michael Francis Easley (born March 23, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 72nd governor of North Carolina from 2001 to 2009. He is the first governor of North Carolina to have been convicted of a felony. A member of ...

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Dave Freudenthal David Duane Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American attorney, economist, and politician who served as the 31st Governor of Wyoming from 2003 to 2011. Freudenthal previously was the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming ...

(former) # Christine Gregoire (former) # Maggie Hassan (former) #

Brad Henry Charles Bradford Henry (born July 10, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who was the 26th governor of Oklahoma from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2002. Henry won re-election for a second term ...

(former) # John Hickenlooper (former) # Laura Kelly # Ted Kulongoski (former) # Ronnie Musgrove (former) # Janet Napolitano (former) # Jared Polis # Gina Raimondo (former) # Brian Schweitzer (former) # Kathleen Sebelius (former) #

Don Siegelman Donald Eugene Siegelman ( ; born February 24, 1946) is a former American politician, lawyer and convicted felon who was the 51st governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Democratic Party, as of , Siegelman is the last Democrat, as ...

(former) # Earl Ray Tomblin (former) #

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