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The Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority

How Democrats can win big in 2010 and beyond -- by doing the opposite of what they're doing now. Think FDR-style liberalism, not McGovern.
By Michael Lind

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    Democrats: The party that used to build stuff

    Last time the country was broke, FDR put people to work building Hoover Dam and electrifying the Tennessee Valley. Today's Democrats are too busy kissing the butts of the flat-earth lobby to put any of those tax dollars to work actually building the infrastructure we need to get the nation out of debt and back into competition with Asia.

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