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Article: Democratic Party has swung far left
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 11, 1988
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The Democratic Party is giddy with exhilaration and panic as it
contemplates the prospect of putting a radical on its presidential
ticket. In the midst of the Jackson bubble, all attention has been
focused on whether the Democratic Party is ready to march with Jesse
Jackson off the deep end of the American political spectrum.
In contrast to the Rev. Jackson, post-Wisconsin front-runner
Michael Dukakis looks like a centrist. He is not. He too sits
securely at what is, by historical standards, the leftward edge of
Democratic Party politics.
The fact that the Democrats have chosen Mr. Jackson and Gov.
Dukakis as their presidential finalists shows how far left the party
has moved. One ...