Ralph Nader: Progressives are 'marginalized' in Democratic Party
Ralph Nader, former presidential candidate and author of Told You So, says that the progressive movement has become marginalized within the Democratic Party and criticized President Obama for not doing more to stand up for labor issues.
Specifically, Nader said that he believes that liberals have lost their bargaining power because they do not challenge establishment Democrats or show a “movement sensibility,” in a web-exclusive interview with The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd.
“The problem with progressives in the Democratic Party is—they’re hanging on. There is Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders—but they’re fairly marginalized. They’re not in the center because they don’t threaten to break. The right wing does threaten to break sometimes,” Nader explained.
Nader said that progressive liberals should put forward challenge to Hillary Clinton from the left in 2016, in the event that she runs.
“Hillary Clinton, who started out as a progressive out of Yale Law School and Wellesley, she’s become almost the poster child for the military-industrial complex. She hugs Kissinger. She hobnobs with Bob Rubin and the Wall Street crowd,” Nader stressed.
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