Clinton runs as a socially moderate New Dealer

Wind power is close to being cost-effective, even on conventional terms.

Plus, maybe work on greater efficiency of power lines?

(medium-scale experiments, and Bill avoids overselling)
That might have gone somewhere. Good suggestions
The best time to do it is 1993-1994 of course.
 
. . . best time to do it is 1993-1994 of course.
I agree that early is best. And for Bill's first 100 days, maybe limit it to three major policy initiatives, especially those where we want the input of Congress.

For example, as long as Congress addreses infrastructure in a serious way, we're not super hung up on the details.

On the specific of wind power, it has not taken off like gangbusters in the twenty-five years since, although it is part of the overall energy package. So I think, steady as we go, medium steps, don't over-invest.
 
Regarding his crime policies, if I recall correctly, they were supported by much of the African-American political class at the time.
 
What about welfare reform and NAFTA? Those were not very liberal things to do.

FDR was also a free trader. Trade liberalization - opposition to tariffs and barriers to trade - has actually been the one thing Democrats have been consistent on throughout their entire history. Historically, it was the Republicans who were the protectionist party, backing away from that only in the postwar era. Protectionism in the Democratic Party in the '70s and (especially) 1980s was an intraparty insurgency, based on Midwestern manufacturers and labor unions turning from pro-trade (due to export opportunities) - or at least neutral - to hostile, as a result of competition from Asia.

Keep in mind, Dukakis in '88 also campaigned on free trade (attacking Gephardt that year for his protectionism), and on welfare reform. And Clinton's original welfare reform plan included a guarantee of a public job and childcare support. (What basically happened re: welfare reform is that after the GOP took Congress, Clinton decided to make an election year calculation to sign into law the Republicans' welfare reform bill, after getting some minor concessions.)
 
. . . And Clinton's original welfare reform plan included a guarantee of a public job and childcare support. . .
Yes, one would think that if we're going to insist that people get a job that there actually be enough jobs. :p

As human beings, as the heavily hierarchical social monkeys that we are, we focus on whether it's a meritocracy. And okay, it's kind of a meritocracy, probably good enough in that regard. And we seem absolutely stumped in focusing on baseline numbers, such as the decline in the percentage of middle-class jobs.
 
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