Centrism, populist style.

As this is written, American liberals have made scarcely a new proposal for reform in twenty years. Reputations for liberalism or radicalism continue to depend almost exclusively on a desire to finish the unfinished social legislation of the New Deal. U.S. President Bill Clinton's victory with left-liberal support, is key here, because it's needed to upbraid not just Newt Gingrich and his allies in the House but the Washington and New York chattering classes, which for the past two decades have bemoaned the ultra liberal and special-interest groups that allegedly control the Democratic Party.