Old-Guard Dems Try to Reclaim Hijacked Agenda from Socialist Radicals
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/old-dems-reclaim-hijacked-agenda/
After months of allowing socialism-loving liberal activists to drive the Democratic agenda, some party elders are hoping to re-take the wheel—and hit the brakes.
While ambitious proposals such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal have drawn headlines—and Republican derision—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and senior Democratic leaders this week introduced what they said were more modest plans on both health care and the environment, each aiming to build off existing policies that have won support in the recent past.
One of the Democrats’ efforts would shore up the Affordable Care Act by expanding protections for people with pre-existing conditions and undoing some of the steps President Donald Trump has taken to undercut the law commonly called “Obamacare.”
The other would aim to reduce carbon emissions and bind the U.S. to the targets set in the international Paris climate accord.
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The term has history also:
>The Social Democratic Federation was formed by the "Old Guard" faction of the Socialist Party, which left the organization after their final defeat at the Cleveland Convention of May 1936.
>During the factional war of 1936, the Socialist Party NEC expelled some or all of the New York state organization. This action early in the year prompted the exodus of several Old Guard dominated organizations, including the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania, the Socialist Party of Connecticut, the Socialist Party of Maryland and the Finnish and Jewish Federations in the summer of 1936. Large parts of the Socialist Parties of New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts also separated from the national organization at this time.
http://marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/socialdemocraticfed.html
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