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Melding the Middle
“What will happen if we do it right,” Senator Chuck Schumer informed journalist and Atlantic Monthly editor Joshua Green, “is that there’ll be an alliance between the middle class and the poor, as opposed to the alliance between the middle class and the rich [that held for the past 28 ...
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Melding the Middle
Open Left - Front Page — This is cross-posted from DMI Blog  “What will happen if we do it right,” Senator Chuck Schumer informed journalist and Atlantic Monthly editor Joshua Green, “is that there’ll be an alliance between the middle class and the poor, as opposed to the alliance between the middle class and the rich [that held for the past 28 years]. Everything we’re talking about is the work of an active, strong government, and if it works, it will wed the middle class to the Democrats for a generation.” Schumer’s partisan ...

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Suburban GuerrillaDMI Blog: “What will happen if we do it right,” Senator Chuck Schumer informed journalist and Atlantic Monthly editor Joshua Green, “is that there’ll be an alliance between the middle class and the poor, as opposed to the alliance between the middle class and the rich [that held for the past 28 years]. Everything we’re talking about is the work of an active, strong government, and if it works, it will wed the middle class to the Democrats for a generation.”

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