This is the moment when Hillary Clinton won Tuesday night’s Democratic debate: “I’m a progressive,” she said, “But I’m a progressive who likes to come by things done.” Clinton went on to talk approximately how she has worked with Republicans to pass the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and a bona-fide progressive victory. The message was: The way to advance progressive goals is not to toss off an ideologically satisfying wish-list of grandiose government programs and expect the country to suddenly fall into agreement,it is to confess that policymaking demands a sense of nuance (a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression) and of the possible. Clinton made the case that she offers much more than political triangulation and an e-mail scandal. She argued that she offers thoughtfulness and competence — and that this does not make her an ideological turncoat.
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