Sentences with phrase «of white progressives»
Not only did he lose, but he ended up alienated from his base of white progressives, blacks and latinos and New Yorkers who reside in Brooklyn and Queens.
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Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.
It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»
So, Gary, you see your progressive Christianity as more «valid», less «black - and - white» than those who have fallen out of the «veritable potpourri of colorful diversity» into dismal «atheistic mechanism»?
As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.
As R. R. Reno noted last week, progressive commentators strained to cast Trump's exhortation of the West as a nasty case of white nationalism and racism.
The War of 1914 - 1918 was followed by an acceleration of the penetration of Negro Africa by white culture and by the progressive disintegration of native cultures.
Its average check of $ 64 seems modest alongside that of sister concept Double Eagle Steak House, especially given Sullivan's posh white tablecloth setting and progressive menu offerings.
On the flip side, if you view the Sanders comeback as a progressive fantasy that has no shot of actually taking place, you shouldn't place your bet on Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnline).
You want to call progressive cucks (or whatever other gross term du jour the alt - right or russian trolls come up with), but you are the fragile ones clinging to an antiquated system and terrified of losing your white male privilege (I am a 33 year old white male FYI).
Arsenal's reputation for playing progressive, attractive football is well - deserved, and if the evidence of their performances in the Europa League is anything to go, they will be proudly maintained by the next generation of players to pull on the famous red and white shirts.
This may include a bedtime ritual of some kind to quiet the mind, progressive relaxation, calming aromas, counting breaths, an audio recording of a meditation or guided imagery that you like, darkness and / or a sleep mask, a white noise machine etc..
Public school districts in Berkeley, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. — two of America's more progressive towns — have removed the drink from their list of daily offerings, opting for low - fat, organic white milk instead.
Photographer Erin White, disheartened by this lack of support for full - term nursing amongst the otherwise accepting and progressive people of Norway, said, «Women are being failed here just as they are in the USA.
From liberal / progressives, I'm hearing a powerful fear that the New Yorker is feeding into a narrative that hurts Obama, which to me is a clear result of 2000 and 2004 — both years in which Democrats feel as though the White House was snatched from their grasp unfairly and / or inexplicably.
The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.
The concept of a passive, «we just want to help ourselves,» white nationalism is forever tainted by its associations with white supremacy, much like the passive ends of the Black Lives Matter movement and their more violent ends, or progressive protestors and Anti-Fa.
He is the anti-Trump, a self - styled progressive who is mayor of the president's hometown and a prominent voice in the Democratic resistance to the White House.
Lis Smith, a Democratic operative who worked for Alcantara, chided «white progressives» on Twitter for criticizing Alcantara's decision to join the IDC and trying to «diminish the voices of New Americans & ppl who support them.»
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to rule out the possibility of mounting a progressive challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018, and also would not endorse the governor's expected re-election bid or his potential 2020 White House run.
The plan for a progressive alliance forged in the white heat of GE2017 should explicitly be about challenging this growing rightist, Tory hegemony.
Lehrer then suggested Sanders might be more progressive from the White House than he had to be to represent rural Vermont, where there is a tradition of hunting and support of gun rights.
Politically, much of Mr. Cuomo's agenda for 2015 seems designed to appeal to his party's progressives — not the hardliners, to be sure, but those slightly left of center who might find themselves looking for a presidential candidate next year if Hillary Clinton decides that eight years of living in the White House was more than enough, thank you.
Any rational politician would do the same thing if he wanted to win re-election in a state like New York or still had hopes of galvanizing a progressive coalition for a White House bid.»
But the mere fact that Cuomo is facing a challenge at all has been interpreted as a weakness by the national media, especially when it comes to 1) his usefulness to potential 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton in the brave new world of progressive - dominated Democratic politics, (NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is poised to rise even higher there), and 2) his own White House aspirations.
The effort by AQE comes as Cuomo has been trying to position himself as the antidote to Trump and a champion of progressive values in what is widely viewed as preparation for a potential White House run in 2020.
Michael White: Hopes of a progressive Lib - Lab alliance were a bit like asking Manchester United and Manchester City fans to bury historic differences for the sake of their city
These bills will mark the start of a reinvigorated progressive agenda from Latimer and the Board of Legislators, who recently elected a new majority leader, Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat, to replace the previous chair, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, in a divisive nomination process.
She can win with everything he's got,» said Joe Trippi, who faced a similar problem when he was trying to figure out the math for the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, another Vermont liberal popular among white progressives, but one who didn't have a primary opponent with the kind of strength among African - Americans and other minority voters that Clinton's shown in 2008 and so far in this race.
ICYMI: Allies of the Senate Democrats, who are anxious to see a Democrat - controlled upper house in order to more easily pass what they have deemed a «progressive» agenda, are now injecting race into the equation, noting a coalition between the Republicans and Independent Democratic Conference will be dominated by white men.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee Co-founder Adam Green was reacting to a statement by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the issue of a public option in a health care bill.
The race for Democratic National Committee chair, normally a quiet affair managed by party insiders, emerged as a roiling public campaign, as progressives loyal to Sen. Bernie Sanders and establishment Democrats jousted for control of a depleted organization increasingly at loose ends after eight years in the White House and then Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss to Donald Trump.
Washington (CNN)- One year ago, Howard Dean, the former Democratic presidential contender and avatar of progressive sentiment, sat in a hotel lobby at the annual Netroots Nation conference in San Jose and held forth on Hillary Clinton's White House chances in 2016.
«These outsiders who were supporting the senator's campaign independent of the senator said that their goal was to suppress African - American and progressive white vote,» King said.
The stalwarts of New York's progressive political coalition join in the singing, along with Patrick Gaspard, the former White House political director under President Obama, Senator Chuck Schumer, and the four Democrats running for mayor.
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare disease of the brain's white matter caused by the John Cunningham polyomavirus (JCV), a usually harmless virus that infects up to 80 percent of healthy adults.
The plain white outfit has dependably been the ideal decision yet these conventions have been tested in the most recent style wave which has realised a progressive change in the Latest Western marriage dresses by virtue of the veneration and shading change presented in the inconclusive mixed bags that are up in the business now.
So many of the contemporary stories set during that more shameful chapter of America's past invent white role models who seem downright progressive by the standards of the day, and enlightened even by ours (à la Atticus Finch).
The Intolerant Left — Adrienne LaFrance recaps a conversation with the writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ta - Nehisi Coates, and Jeffrey Goldberg about self - righteousness among progressives, the appeal of Donald Trump, and the entitlement that comes with being white in America.
He also meets and falls for rising star singer Bianca (the impressive Tessa Thompson of Selma, Dear White People fame), a feisty and wary woman suffering from progressive hearing loss.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band that helped define the early sound of progressive rock with «A White Shade of Pale,» Procol Harum has released a record of 11 new songs titled Novum.
Cliched lyrics about white flags and lines in the sand show that reducing civil rights struggles to greeting - card poetry is clearly the mini-trend of this year's nominees, but Blige gives her song far more authority than Day does with hers; its raw, rootsy production is unusual for the progressive diva, and worth her exploring further.
In spite of its «modern» aspects (extended families, separated and remarried parents, step - fathers and half - siblings, the father's progressive politics, the mother's struggles), it's a time capsule of an America that is no more: white suburbs, established rites of passage, unquestioned gender and ethnic identities, a national territory unchallenged by the rest of the world, no real vanishing point.
What the director Jordan Peele and the cast do wonderfully though is to disguise this discomfort as run of the mill prejudice often experienced by black people, even amongst white people who count themselves as progressive as opposed to anything more sinister.
Overall, though, the best scenes take place between Amy parents and Jeremy's therapist mom (Julie White), the latter showing her progressive point of view by accepting that her son is gay (he isn't), and surprised when she returns home early to find both her son and Amy naked at the poolside.
I'd even add that it's worth it just for the scene where everything screeches to a halt for a couple of minutes while Joe delivers an impassioned, vein - popping progressive screed about how all you rich white guys better watch out, because the United States is a confidence game cooked for the ruling class and one day poor, downtrodden minorities and women will rise up and take what's theirs.
The most creative and innovative and daring proposals of South America usually come from Brazil, such as Lúcia Murat's Praça Paris (Lúcia Murat, 2017), which really grants a voice to Afro - Brazilians through a young black woman from the favela (Rio's slums), trapped between the endless violence of her environment and the progressive flirting with disaster of her middle class white psychotherapist.
A subset of white, affluent, well - educated parents have long favored progressive education.
My own sense from watching this debate play out is that most of the «white suburban moms» who oppose Common Core also share a romantic, progressive view of education that is at odds with traditional schooling in general.
On my graduation in 1969, with a mix of average grades yet perplexingly high SAT scores, I fit the profile that progressive white colleges were looking for in their efforts to integrate higher education.