Perez, a career civil rights prosecutor, has a long list of progressive achievements, though little experience in electoral politics.
More conservative Democrats, such as the New York senator Chuck Schumer, have stepped up their criticism in recent days of Obama's few previous progressive achievements, such as healthcare reform.
Fugate, a soft-spoken, bespectacled figure who hosted the LA launch of Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father in 1995, gives more credit to progressive achievements – achievements that would be imperilled under Trump.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells January 18 , 2016At Sunday's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton argued that she, rather than Bernie Sanders, will defend and build on the progressive achievements of President Obama.
His stewardship of this week's groundbreaking agreement among seven Northeastern states to limit greenhouse gases from power plants -- a welcome antidote to the Bush administration's negativism at the recent global warming conference in Montreal -- is only the latest in a string of progressive achievements.
Most of the radical and progressive achievements of the 20th century - including the Russian revolution - were brought about by an alliance between the oppressed and the intelligentsia, and a good proportion of them - particularly the Russian revolution - were followed by disappointment and desertion.
The preparation of nanostructured materials with controlled chemical composition, size, morphology, and the surface functionalization have witnessed great progressive achievements during the last two decades [12, 13].
Progressive achievements like the minimum wage and civil rights began as ideas that the political establishment once dismissed as loopy.
"After years of accusing liberals of judicial activism, conservatives are wholeheartedly relying on Republican-appointed judges to undo progressive achievements," Clinton wrote.
