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Meeting the Conservative Challenge
For years, NDN has been helping to lead a very important conversation inside the progressive family about how to best respond to the ascent of the conservative movement and its politics. This page collects our argument on the rapid decline of this once proud movement and the opportunities facing 21st century progressives. For more on our vision for effective, progressive governance please see NDN's agenda for hope and progress. To explore our efforts to develop and promote a higher order of progressive politics, visit our affiliate, the New Politics Institute.
Follow NDN's daily coverage of globalization and economic issues by going to our blog and clicking the 'Bush/GOP' tag.
Related NDN Features
June 6, 2008NDN Staff provides near daily commentary on John McCain and his candidacy on the NDN Blog, www.ndnblog.org.
May 22, 2008NDN Staff provides near daily commentary on the 2008 primary on the NDN Blog, www.ndnblog.org.
January 4, 2008For the past several years NDN has been making an argument that for progressives to succeed in the coming century they would have to build a new majority coalition very different from the one FDR built in the 20th century. With the fall of the Southern strategy and the opening of the Southwest, this coalition represents a new politics and new demographics.
October 30, 2007The collapse of the conservatives has provided an unusual political opening, while major shifts in technology and media, demographics, and the challenges the country faces have combined to give progressives an even rarer opportunity to restructure politics for the long term.
July 23, 2007NPI Director Peter Leyden offers his perspective on the implications of tonight's CNN-YouTube debate.
May 3, 2007As the Republican Presidential candidates gather tonight for their first debate, let's step back and reflect on what is now the most important political story of our day - the extraordinary political and intellectual collapse of the American right.
May 2, 2007Now that the President has vetoed Congress's alternative strategy for Iraq, we have come to a defining moment in his Presidency, for the nation, and the two parties. At the core of this moment is the uncomfortable recognition that despite his lofty rhetoric about the intent of his foreign policy, Bush's foreign policy has failed at just about everything it has set out to do.
April 12, 2007The stakes in 2008 are very high. It is not just about the control of the White House, but whether Democrats can take advantage of a profound mishandling of government by the Republicans, and build the foundation for a 21st-century majority as strong as it had in the 20th.
March 24, 2007Has there ever been an American governing party which showed so little regard for the rule of law? Have there ever been so many criminal investigations into a governing party in American history?
Consider the record.
February 18, 2007US politics 2007 is being driven by one central force - the ongoing and deepening repudiation of the Bush Era, its politics and ideology. It is as if we have to struggle, each day, to toss off the language, the arguments, the reality of this disapointing era, as Bush and his team desperately try to stop the ongoing assault on their governing construct and world view.
February 10, 2007We’ve never seen any Presidential field like this in American history. It is now clear that Democrats are offering a vision of a party that looks like, and speaks to, the emerging population of 21st century America.
February 4, 2007One of the most powerful new dynamics of global and American politics is the deep collapse of the muscular but universally unpopular Bush brand of conservatism that has driven the politics of the world these last 6 years.
January 23, 2007Tonight, President Bush will attempt to explain away, again, his foreign policy mistakes, and offer the Democrats a few olive branches on domestic issues. While we should all welcome his overtures on important challenges like health care and immigration reform, my sense is that anyone watching tonight will be filled with a profound sense of “what might have been” – of the lives, years, money, opportunities and good will squandered by this Administration.
December 31, 2006NDN President Simon Rosenberg reflects on the momentous political events of 2006 and the challenges facing America in the new year.
November 12, 2006A lot changed this week in America. One of the most important things that is in the process of changing is the understanding of the moment we are in in American history; and this new understanding, advanced to a great degree by NDN and our allies, should give all progressives optimism that this emerging new era in American history means better days are coming for our movement and the great nation we love.
November 8, 2006Here at NDN, we've put together a compilation of the four key documents we released regarding the 2006 election. Collectively, these documents contextualize and explain the magnitude of these midterm elections.
November 8, 2006NDN President Simon Rosenberg offers his post-election analysis.
November 7, 2006Despite the many billions spent in building this modern conservative movement, history will label it a grand and remarkable failure. And I think we will look back at 2006 as the year this most recent period of American history - the conservative ascendency - ended.
November 3, 2006NDN is re-releasing this memo written in 2004 for the New Democrat Network to provide a look back on how much has changed in the past two years. The predictions made in it look increasingly prescient, and show how the the course was charted for a progressive comeback in 2006.
June 7, 2006Our vision for this new politics has three dimensions, all of which must be mastered to ensure political success in this new century: a new governing agenda that tackles the emerging challenges of our time, the ways in which we speak to one another are going through profound changes and the American people themselves have changed.
March 7, 2006The latest in a series of thought pieces about how we best build a modern, effective 21st century progressive movement, Simon Rosenberg's foreword to a new, provocative book: Crashing the Gate.
January 31, 2006NDN explores the truly compelling story of this decade - one that President Bush doesn’t want told - the rapid and dramatic failure of conservative government.
November 2, 2005NDN praises Senator Reid's bold action to ensure the Senate Intelligence Committee completes its investigation and reiterates the need to determine the facts behind the administration's handling of the march to war.
October 26, 2005NDN's first call for the Senate to conduct a thorough review of the handling of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
October 6, 2005As the array of scandals facing modern conservatives continued to emerge, NDN presented an overview of their unprecedented corruption.
September 15, 2005NDN explores the consequences of the administration’s reckless economic policies and discovers a government weakened and Americans increasingly struggling to make ends meet.
September 12, 2005Using the disastrous inaction of FEMA as a springboard, NDN explores the many messes that modern conservative leaders are leaving for future generations to clean up.
September 12, 2005Faced with criminal activity across the leadership of the modern conservatives, NDN reflects on the tragic saga of a once proud movement.
April 25, 2005In 1993, President Clinton and Vice President Gore launched their economic strategy: (1) establishing fiscal discipline, eliminating the budget deficit, keeping interest rates low, and spurring private-sector investment; (2) investing in people through education, training, science, and research; and (3) opening foreign markets so American workers can compete abroad. After eight years, the results of President Clinton's economic leadership are clear. Record budget deficits have become record surpluses, 22 million new jobs have been created, unemployment and core inflation are at their lowest levels in more than 30 years, and America is in the midst of the longest economic expansion in our history.
May 20, 2004NDN President Simon Rosenberg discusses the need for the New Democratic movement to revitalize and modernize progressive politics in order to meet the challenge posed by the Republican political machine.
June 17, 2003Simon Rosenberg's speech to the NDN annual meeting in 2003, outlining the challenges posed by the then ascendant Republican Party.
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(Daily Democrat, July 13, 2008)
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(The Hill, April 17, 2007)
(San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2007)
(The Emerging Democratic Majority, January 13, 2007)
(CBS News, December 19, 2006)
(Newsweek, November 20, 2006)
(Newsweek, November 20, 2006)
(New York Times Magazine, November 19, 2006)
(Political Affairs Magazine, November 13, 2006)
(Washington Post, November 13, 2006)
(Canton Repository, November 13, 2006)
(St. Petersburg Times, November 12, 2006)
(Mercury News, November 11, 2006)
(Reuters, November 9, 2006)
(Investor's Business Daily, November 9, 2006)
(Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2006)
(Reuters, November 9, 2006)
(Seattle Times, November 9, 2006)
(The Hill, November 9, 2006)
(Financial Times, November 8, 2006)
(Financial Times, November 7, 2006)
(The Hill, November 7, 2006)
(AScribe: Public Interest Newswire, November 3, 2006)
(South Florida Sun Sentinel, November 2, 2006)
(Newhouse News Service, November 1, 2006)
(San Antonio Express News, November 1, 2006)
(Eagle World News, October 30, 2006)
(Los Angeles TImes, October 27, 2006)
(Washington TImes, October 25, 2006)
(Brandenton Herald, October 17, 2006)
(Houston Chronicle, October 17, 2006)
(New California Media, October 17, 2006)
(Seattle Times, October 13, 2006)
(Boston Globe, October 13, 2006)
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