Reply #27: This demonization of the left has been going on in the US

[nadinbrzezinski]

since Reagan in its modern form.

Many of the DLC are true believers and see progressives as the rabble and a threat to the new economic deals that have done great damage to the country.

I could write a book on this... hell, perhaps one day I will... but this started with the first attacks on the unions and the new deal

So yes, any progressive is not perceived as a threat, but is a threat to the new status quo