Democratic Party cannot deliver significant material policies to voters and has ceded the "cultural nationalist" ground to the Republicans, so it makes no sense to expect it to deliver anything other than "symbolic" policies.
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It abandoned its core working class constituency, a process completed by the end of Clinton's second term ca. 2000.
Its coalition of supporters (some ethnic voters, "lifestyle" voters, college-educated, environmentalists) is too fractious and incoherent to push for a consistent set of redistributive policies.
nickjorg23
