Democratic Leadership Council
The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was an unofficial faction of the US Democratic Party , whose members mostly came from the southern states (including Bill Clinton and Al Gore ). The history of the New Democrats began when they were founded in 1985 . The goal of the DLC was to put the Democratic Party in the middle of the political spectrum in order to take over the White House.
history
Al From , Assistant to Rep. Gillis William Long , approached Senators Sam Nunn and Lawton of Chiles and Governors Chuck Robb and Bruce Babbitt ; with them he explained at a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 28, 1985 the foundation of the DLC. Membership in the DLC was limited to elected Democrats.
The goal of the DLC was to put the Democratic Party in the middle of the political spectrum in order to take over the White House. The DLC argued that the coalition of minorities and white liberal elites in the Democratic Party had pushed white middle-class voters into the arms of the Republicans. In the opinion of the DLC, this realization was consistently ignored by the Democratic Party; three lost presidential elections were the result. The Democrats have a reputation as an advocate for minorities and as a welfare party. Through its attacks on the liberals in the Democratic Party, the DLC aimed to signal to the swap voters in the political center, i.e. the white middle class, that democrats were not exclusively recruited from blacks, feminists, homosexuals and liberals. The DLC was thus on a course of confrontation with the party leadership of the Democratic National Committee and the majority of Congress Democrats.
In his presidential campaign, Bill Clinton benefited from the ideas of the DLC. He also took advantage of both his position as DLC chairman to gain national notoriety and to gain a foothold in the Washington establishment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kubilay Yado Arin: The Role of Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy. From Clinton to Bush Jr. (Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013, p. 189.)