And the 2016 Ralph Nader Award Goes to Bernie Sanders - Time.com

[Ken Burch]

128. No, that wasn't what that person said.

But I think we'd all agree that the party must NEVER go that far to the right in any future election...the1992 and 1996 results led to governance that failed on the bare minimum expectation level for a Democratic president:

A Democrat in the White House should feel obligated never to target the Democratic base for attack and to ensure, if there can't be actual gains, that there will be no lost ground for anyone in that base.

There was massive loss for working people across the country due to that Democratic president's successful fight to implement NAFTA, and there was massive loss for the poor due to his embrace of the classist and essentially racist Republican narratives about welfare, drug policy, and crimes.

And there was a period of long-term electoral decline for the Democratic Party throughout that eight years-a decline caused largely by the insistence of the party's strategists in that era NOT to fight for the interests of working and kept-from-working poor, despite the fact that there was no way we could ever expect high turnout among those groups if we weren't going to champion them and stand in solidarity with them.