Democratic Leadership Council
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Sep 30, 2026
Jim TalentGUEST
And you and I lived through this in the 1980s.
Jim TalentGUEST
They lost three presidential elections in a row, and that's when we got the Democratic Leadership Council and Clinton and my old friend Dick Gephardt, uh, moving to the center, and that will happen here.
Jim TalentGUEST
In the meantime, they're gonna try and get elected and elect these radicals, and they're gonna do it by not talking in general election campaigns about what they wanna do and instead spouting off about Medicare for All and funding public libraries.
Jim TalentGUEST
I, I don't think that's gonna work, uh, but, uh, we'll see in a month or so.
Howard MortmanHOST
Senator Charles S. Robb and Governor L. Douglas Wilder have redefined Virginia's political landscape with a long-running feud that has turned into all-out war." That was the Washington Post.
Howard MortmanHOST
But on November 13th, 1989, when Chuck Robb introduced Doug Wilder for a speech to the Centrist Democratic Leadership Council, it didn't seem that way.
Chuck RobbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An enormous sense of pride from Virginians and countless folks all over this country.
Chuck RobbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On Saturday, January 13th, this man will be inaugurated as the 66th governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Lily GeismerGUEST
Um, and so he also united a, a variety of different groups into, like, a really important coalition that I do think is a alternative pathway for the Democrats.
Lily GeismerGUEST
Um, I look at the group, like I look at this dem- the Democratic Leadership Council, who is really, becomes really important in the 1980s and '90s, who all, they wanna get as far away from Jesse Jackson's vision as possible.
Lily GeismerGUEST
Like, that's what they say, like, "That's gonna ruin the Democrats." And like, we have to, our goals are to focus on the, this, these kinds of economic policies that promote growth, restrict gover- restrict welfare, and then also to make, like, we should not be focusing from a political strategy on communities of color, labor, non-voters.
Lily GeismerGUEST
Like, what we need to do is kind of target these moderate suburban swing voters, and that's kind of how we can save the Democratic Party, uh, going forward.
Eddie Glaude Jr.GUEST
You know, this co-optation of Republican ideas for our own.
Eddie Glaude Jr.GUEST
This is one of the legacies of the DLC, the Democratic Leadership Council.
Eddie Glaude Jr.GUEST
This is one of the legacies of the third way approach.
Eddie Glaude Jr.GUEST
You want to bring their particular views on to accept them as our own.
Clint PowellHOST
Was there anybody on the left you'd vote for?
Eric BuchananHOST
Oh, what is his name from Memphis that's on the five on the Fox that who was the last chair of the Democratic Leadership Council? Oh, my God, you just made me brain fart totally.
Eric BuchananHOST
That's okay.
Clint PowellHOST
I just didn't know if there was a liberal you would
Clint PowellHOST
Was there anybody on the left you'd vote for?
Eric BuchananHOST
Oh, what is his name from Memphis that's on the five on the Fox that who was the last chair of the Democratic Leadership Council? Oh, my God, you just made me brain fart totally.
Eric BuchananHOST
That's okay.
Clint PowellHOST
I just didn't know if there was a liberal you would
Ben WaterhouseHOST
Yeah, I love that.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
So should we go deep on Clinton for a little bit? I mean, there's this question that's kind of embedded, Lily, in a lot of what we've been talking about, about if we accept that Bill Clinton, the human, is a sort of central figure in the New Democrats, and he was deeply involved and a leader in the Democratic Leadership Council in the 80s before he became a national candidate, there's this kind of fascinating historiographical question about How do you understand him as as a leader and what he does to the Democratic Party? And we've in earlier episodes of this podcast, we've talked to other historians who have who have takes on this.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
You know, for example, that, you know, we talked to Margaret O'Mara, who had who worked for the Clinton campaign in 1992 as well.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
And, you know.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
Yeah, I love that.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
So should we go deep on Clinton for a little bit? I mean, there's this question that's kind of embedded, Lily, in a lot of what we've been talking about, about if we accept that Bill Clinton, the human, is a sort of central figure in the New Democrats, and he was deeply involved and a leader in the Democratic Leadership Council in the 80s before he became a national candidate, there's this kind of fascinating historiographical question about How do you understand him as as a leader and what he does to the Democratic Party? And we've in earlier episodes of this podcast, we've talked to other historians who have who have takes on this.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
You know, for example, that, you know, we talked to Margaret O'Mara, who had who worked for the Clinton campaign in 1992 as well.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
And, you know.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
Yeah, I love that.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
So should we go deep on Clinton for a little bit? I mean, there's this question that's kind of embedded, Lily, in a lot of what we've been talking about, about, you know, if we accept that Bill Clinton, the human, is a sort of central figure in the New Democrats, and he was, you know, he was deeply involved and a leader in the Democratic Leadership Council in the 80s before he became a national candidate, you know, there's this kind of fascinating historiographical question about How do you understand him as as a leader and what he does to the Democratic Party? And we've in earlier episodes of this podcast, we've talked to other historians who have who have takes on this.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
You know, for example, that, you know, we talked to Margaret O'Mara, who had who worked for the Clinton campaign in 1992 as well.
Ben WaterhouseHOST
And, you know.
David CobbGUEST
And that is because of the commitment to the neoliberal policies that so many of us fought against, and it started really in the '70s, but really accelerated, uh, in the '90s, Rick.
David CobbGUEST
And there's a, there's a special place in Hades for the Democratic Leadership Council, uh, and all the rest who abandoned the working class, uh, so thoroughly and completely.
David CobbGUEST
And by that, I wanna really name Bill Clinton, uh, for the role that he and his administration played on NAFTA, on the creation of the entire framework of the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, uh, the World Bank.
David CobbGUEST
I mean, what we're seeing now, again, are chickens coming home to roost.
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