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Indeed, fearful of the populists’ power, in or out of government, the response from mainstream conservatives – and even some social democrats – to their illiberal views has already been inexcusably soft.
In Washington, many Democrats will use these policy debates to capitalize on popular fury at Wall Street, while many Republicans look for an opening to capitalize on hoped-for public anger at the Democrats.
That is understandable: the upstarts thoroughly defeated the Democrats at the polls, often with outsize populist promises.
A key feature of Trump’s presidency has been his desire to ingratiate himself with guests by offering what he cannot deliver (as he did during a recent meeting with congressional Democrats on immigration).
Still, the troubles of the right should worry all thinking democrats; and these troubles are not confined to Europe's western half.
Weisel claimed not to understand, so I explained: A majority of congressional Democrats supported the principle that the United States should sign trade agreements only with countries that are democracies.
Indeed, one-third of Democrats have at various times told pollsters that they will not vote for a black candidate.
They have already been sharply criticized by Democrats as being too risky and pro-bank – which they largely are.
When Adenauer took Germany firmly into the Western alliance, he was not only opposed in parliament (by the Social Democrats), but also by a popular majority that thought his policy would make reunification with Soviet-controlled East Germany impossible.
Her presumptive candidacy’s trump card is supposed to be her advantage among critically important women voters – the deciding factor for Democrats in national elections.
Ukraine’s democrats, who won that election, were denied their voice and their place in government.
A Merkel-led government could either be a continuation of the grand coalition between Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats or some other political constellation.
He will be challenged not only by the now shell-shocked Democrats, but also by Republicans who opposed his candidacy, whether openly or covertly.
Tomas G. Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’s first president after its establishment in 1918, used to say that his country was a democracy, but “so far, without democrats.”
Rubio’s slick speaking style and Hispanic heritage make Democrats nervous.
This would not be in anyone’s interest, so we should wish China well in 2008, while sparing a thought for all the dissidents, democrats, and free spirits languishing in labor camps and prisons.
In such democracies without democrats, "human rights" are more problematic to discuss than procedural formalities, because they are not thought of as "rights" in the legal sense, but merely as pangs of conscience, or else as gifts to be exchanged for something else of value.
The threat of return to power by Meciar forced all democrats, leftist or rightist, into one camp.
We were burying the collective dream of intellectuals and democrats for a Russia where freedom and the rule of law would, after a long and cold Soviet winter, take root and bloom.
The West has supported in a variety of ways democratic movements in the post-Soviet region, hardly hiding its enthusiasm for the various “color” revolutions that have replaced long-standing dictators with more responsive leaders – though not all have turned out to be the committed democrats they pretended to be.
He tried to do so in 1995, but the Chechen War drove Russia's democrats away from him.
And a lot of other democrats around the world will be hoping that we pull it off.
Ten of the swing votes are Democrats, mainly from coal states; the other six are Republicans who conceivably could vote with the president and the Democratic majority.
Democrats have even managed to beat the Republicans on their own turf.
Indeed, a March 2015 Pew Research poll showed that both Democrats and especially Republicans were more sympathetic toward Israel than Palestine.
Yet among liberal democrats, there was actually more sympathy for the Palestinians, with 68% saying that they sympathized more with the Palestinians, compared with 44% of moderate Democrats and just 33% of Republicans.
This places Sanders, who depends on the support of liberal democrats and young people, in a delicate position.
These social democrats were once part of a socialist, revolutionary, or reformist left, tightly allied with labor unions.
The first government of the left in Uruguayan history has comparative advantages in this respect, for, unlike in Brazil and Chile, Uruguay’s social democrats have ruled as a one-party majority government.
These challenges may eventually tug Uruguay’s social democrats even closer to the experiences of Brazil and Chile.
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