1. Editorials.
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MacShane, Denis and Nichols, John Spicer
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POLITICAL campaigns , *PRESIDENTIAL candidates , *POLITICAL candidates , *PRACTICAL politics - Abstract
Just when the Democrats thought it was safe to go back in the tepid waters of me-too politics, the specter of U.S. politician Jesse Jackson rises again to shatter their calm. Their hope that Jackson could be contained in the nightmare world of Washington has been dashed by his refusal to run for Mayor. Now it appears that he will resume his presidential campaign for 1992, and if the primaries are timed in an advantageous way, he may have his best shot yet at a place on the ticket. Jackson terrifies the neoliberal apparatchiks of the party establishment precisely because he represents the emergence of their repressed political conscience. He raises the issues they have rejected, he organizes the constituencies they have abandoned, he projects the vision they have denied.
- Published
- 1990