President Bill Clinton is a Democratic establishment figure now, but he rose in the 1980s as a kind of insurgent “new Democrat.” In 1990 he became, while governor of Arkansas, president of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of partisans promoting a more centrist, less liberal approach, the Democrats having lost five of the previous six presidential elections. Clinton himself won in 1992, a new Democrat from a new generation, and began reshaping his party in his image. Read More