On the other hand, the political center of gravity has shifted in the Democratic Party, and there are reasons to hope that Clinton will embrace a more progressive, far-reaching agenda than anything that her husband and his fellow New Democrats would have endorsed in the nineteen-nineties.
Liberals and progressives, far from celebrating the onset of a new New Deal, were forced to defend basic social-welfare policies such as unemployment benefits and food stamps.
While it may be organizational leaders and bloggers who are publicly articulating the grievances of disappointed progressives, far more worrisome for Gibbs & Co. should be the disaffection of people who turned out enthusiastically in 2008 but have had little to cheer about since.
The report is clearly progressive and far reaching.
But such steps, although progressive, are far from satisfying the millions of Kurds who have felt suppressed for too long.
Sadly, weakening the Grutter v. Bollinger ruling — the 2003 case affirming the narrow use of race as an admissions factor — would make that progressive vision far more difficult.
And moderate progressive parties, far from being presented with an opportunity to enact an egalitarian agenda, are forced to back up and defend basic institutions of social democracy, such as progressive taxation and a universal social-safety net.
The political scientist Sudha Pai contends that a loss in the Uttar Pradesh elections will hurt the United Progressive Alliance far more than Rahul Gandhi's career graph and could potentially be seen as a mini-referendum against the central government.
We think our industrialized and weaponized "civilization" as progressive and far superior to that of hunter-gatherers.
They can be oh-so-sophisticated and tell us how our ideas are too progressive, too far left or just not realistic.
Komen surely should become one of those organizations that any progressive stays far away from -- if we truly believe that breast cancer affects women on both sides of the aisle and that the possibilities for cures should extend across the aisle as well.
