++Contrary to noted resident of Princeton, New Jersey, Cornell West and Chris Hedges, the younger generation represented by Nancy LeTourneau believes that President Obama has moved the Overton Window to the left.
++As a guest editors on the weekend for Washington Monthly,LeTourneau has been voicing the concerns of the new feminists but decided to probe the reasons Hillary Clinton is campaigning toward the Left.
++She argues and I agree that President Obama's actions after the 2014 elections made it permissible to take positions toward the Left. She examines how President Obama by taking executive actions on climate change and immigration moved the dialogue there.
++LeTourneau says that Hillary must win with the Obama coalition that thought change was possible. This coalition means that Democrats don't have to coddle the so-called moderates as much. The younger demographic is to the Left of the older generation Democratic voter.
++You might say that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren pushed the debate a certain way but LeTourneau makes a compelling case how President Obama "allowed" this to happen.
++Hedges and West would say this is nonsense because they have already written off President Obama as a neoliberal stooge. I think this is a factor of age.
++You'll notice that Bill McKibben is attacking Obama because of his decision to allow Shell to drill in the Arctic. Notwithstanding President Obama's executive actions preserving millions of acres in Alaska from gas and oil exploration that drove the right up the wall,people of Bill's age--mine--tend to have a purity test that no one operating in this system can pass.
++It seems to me that this is the contradiction between movement politics and party politics. Somehow progressives have to learn to cope with that contradiction.
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