Reply #20: I agree parts of the premise are bad

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although I don't agree with you that Democrats from the DLC ever suggested that Democrats should distance themselves from "liberals, those hippies, Black people, women's libbers and other distasteful minorities, and put them damn unions down because they had gotten too uppity."

If the DLC ever did that, they wouldn't last a minute, not with one Democrat. They might have suggested that the way to win is to open the umbrella wide enough for more centrist views to fit under it, but they certainly wouldn't prescribe rightwing elitist tactics to do it.