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For example, protectionist Democrats in the US Congress have been able to insulate themselves from charges of opposing free trade if they scuttle Colombia’s FTA, because they will most likely ratify the deals for Panama and Peru.
Democrats are so infuriated by his misogyny and xenophobia that they fail to understand how he connects with many of their former supporters.
Only in the Czech Republic are elections nowadays fought between Western-style liberals and Western-style social democrats, with postcommunists (reformed or not) largely absent from the political scene.
Most social democrats were in fact fiercely anti-communist.
For democrats, loving freedom is not enough.
Unless democrats proceed in a timely manner to build Europe’s internal structure as a single political entity, others will build it their way -- and democrats will be left with only their eyes to cry.
The Republicans didn’t have formal control of the House, but Reagan effectively had a working majority, because numerous Democrats from the South voted with them.
But autocratic, populist thinking can also thrive off that fear, which is why self-styled “illiberal democrats” promise certainty and continuity, and often make a pact with some part of the business class to guarantee it.
Just as it often takes rightwing nationalists to make peace with revolutionaries -- for example in Israel and South Africa -- it takes social democrats to make sweeping reforms in the welfare state.
Trump plainly prefers dictators to democrats, and lacks any respect for his allies.
European democrats with a civilized view of governance, meanwhile, are punished.
But what values could moderate democrats like Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte possibly share with the right-wing political bosses in Hungary, Poland, Italy, and even Austria?
In the past three weeks, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and the Conservatives have all held their annual conferences.
Social democrats govern in coalition governments with laissez-faire conservatives.
With the SPD refusing to participate in a grand coalition, the only mathematically viable option that remains is a “Jamaica” alliance – named for Jamaica’s black, yellow, and green flag – comprising the CDU/CSU, the liberal Free Democrats, and the Greens.
The radicals soon discover that changing norms is not enough to change reality, while the democrats find that heightened social mobilization makes dialogue impossible.
Brave Russian democrats who have not yet been silenced have already remarked on the similarity between Putin’s appeal to ethnic solidarity in annexing Crimea and Hitler’s stance during the Anschluss and the Sudeten crisis in 1938.
Still, 1989 was a good time to be alive (except in China, where the democrats were put down).
Social democrats were always despised by communists, and vice versa.
Democratic idealism was once the domain of the left, including social democrats and liberals.
This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.
By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine’s mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country’s gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.
Liberal democrats believe in the common we of citizens who have equal rights.
He failed, leading to a stunning loss for Democrats in the 1994 midterm congressional elections.
True democrats rightly feel uncomfortable enhancing minority civil rights without parliament’s express consent.
There is little difference any longer between moderate social democrats and mainstream conservatives.
Democrats respond that such a one-sided approach would be economically harmful and socially unjust.
In the aftermath of World War II, when the Austrian republic was struggling to establish itself as a democracy, it was reasonable, as a temporary emergency measure, for Austrian democrats to suppress Nazi ideas and propaganda.
The greatest miracle in the 2009 election campaign is the resurgence of the Liberal Democrats (FDP).
People say that liberal democrats held power during the Yeltsin years, and that this is the reason why liberal groupings, such as the Union of Right Forces of which I was the leader, could not garner mass support.
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