Faux laments lack of DNC’s economic policy leadership

Jeff Faux has a new editorial up on the Economic Policy Institute’s website (although it was originally published in Dissent Magazine). He takes to task the party leadership of the DNC, from Clinton’s first term to present day, for failing to respond to the opportunities the GOP have provided them to advance their own pro-worker economic agenda.

Faux spends some time critiquing Gene Sperling’s new book, and argues that for the last 14 years or so the Democratic establishment–incuding Clinton, Robert Rubin and Gene Sperling–has sold out their party’s labor base to appease the interests of their corporate contributors. Importantly, he ties the party’s lack of a progressive economic agenda to the string of electoral defeats it has suffered in both the presidential and congressional races in the past decade.

Until the party’s Neoliberal establishment (i.e. the DLC, or “New Democrats”) stop trying to ram through a pro-corporate, free-trade economic platform that further destroys what’s left of the social contract between the government and the citizens of America, Faux argues, the Democrats will continue to live in political exile.