The only way I see them totally abandoning the New Left is that it becomes more violent than it was. It was mostly youth oriented and parties naturally want younger members as they are the future of the party.
The New Left would have to do bombing campaigns, assassinations and wide spread full scale riots. Basically it becomes violent enough that everyone not part of it distances themselves from it. In which case the various ideas of the New Left are discredited.
One can dream, one can dreamIt is hard to imagine the Nixon landslide being even bigger than it was.
Exactly what it says on the tin
I Mondale bashed Gary Hart for refusing to categorize Cuba as totalitarian. http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0320/032019.html
I don't quite get it. With the possible exception of 1972, I don't think they ever *embraced* the New Left. Carter may not have increased military spending enough to suit the tastes of *Commentary* magazine but that did not make him another Tom Hayden. Mondale bashed Gary Hart for refusing to categorize Cuba as totalitarian. http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0320/032019.html In 1988, Jackson, not Dukakis, was the candidate the remaining New Leftists favored. In 1992, Bill Clinton backed capital punishment and blasted Sister Souljah. And so on...