GETTING TOUGHER ON BIG MONEY
“[Senator Bernie] Sanders’s presence has required [Hillary] Clinton
to adopt more populist economic policies, and the influence could go further. ‘She’s basically a conservative person, except on issues of gender and inclusiveness,” [former political contender] Gary Hart . . . told me. ‘Her natural instinct is not to play the economic-class card, and that is Sanders’s whole campaign. He has forced her to be tougher on big money than her natural inclination.’”
to adopt more populist economic policies, and the influence could go further. ‘She’s basically a conservative person, except on issues of gender and inclusiveness,” [former political contender] Gary Hart . . . told me. ‘Her natural instinct is not to play the economic-class card, and that is Sanders’s whole campaign. He has forced her to be tougher on big money than her natural inclination.’”
Ryan Lizza, “The Great Divide, Clinton, Sanders and the
Future
of the Democratic Party,” New Yorker, March 21, 2016, pp: 38-44 (39).
of the Democratic Party,” New Yorker, March 21, 2016, pp: 38-44 (39).
