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...Douglas Wilder, the popular Virginia governor who has obviously been suggesting himself as a presidential candidate in 1992 despite public denials, typifies this new type of Democrat. Wilder, who spoke two weeks ago at the Kennedy School of Government as part of a recent spate of stumping, has given a name to the new Democratic agenda--the "New Mainstream...
Most of the policy recommendations of the New Mainstream are not new at all. Without even bothering to create new metaphors, Wilder talks of "cutting the fat out of the budget" and of eliminating "pork barrels." He makes the same trite (though admittedly salient) attacks on members of Congress for not being responsive to constituents. And he waxes patriotic on how America made Europe and Japan what they are today...
Today's "new" Democrats--typified by Wilder--sound like Reagan (or at least Bush) Republicans. Underpinning this New Mainstream is a centrist agenda through which the first elected Black governor hopes to achieve Democratic control of the White House. The agenda compromises former Democratic beliefs on many issues...
...programs (none of the Democrats are specific about which programs will be cut). And unlike the Democratic Party of old, which sensibly fought much of the Reagan defense buildup, the "New Mainstream" does not call for a preponderance of these budget reductions to come from the Pentagon's coffers. Wilder himself has never explicitly called for cuts in the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...Kennedy School last Friday, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder (who is Black) delivered a remarkable address about the need for fiscal responsibility. The specific topic of Wilder's address is less important than the underlying challenge he poses to Farrakhan and Jackson. Perhaps he will one day restore to Black leadership a sense of realism and purposefulness...