I keep seeing concern trolls by the corporate Democrats telling us that the party will be destroyed if the Dems adopt a progressive agenda.

Let's forget for a moment that corporate Democrats have already led the party to destruction, and they are proven losers.

Instead let's focus on their unwavering nostalgia for the 90's. It reminds me a great deal of how Republicans "remember" a fictional economy under Reagan.

The story the neoliberal Dems like to tell us is that after 12 years in the political wilderness, Heroic Bill Clinton moved the Dems to the center by championing a free-market agenda, and thus restored the Democratic Party to glory.

Their story ends there.

They overlook that Clinton never got 50% of the vote in either 1992 or 1996.

However, the really important item the corporate Dems leave out is what happened to the Democratic Party after they decided to become the Republican-lite, lesser-evil party.

House of Reps

Year Repub Dem 1992 167 267 1994 176 258 1996 230 204 1998 226 207 2000 223 211

Senate

Year Repub Dem 1992 44 56 1994 43 57 1996 52 48 1998 55 45 2000 55 45

Governorships

Year Repub Dem 1992 20 28 1994 20 29 1996 32 17 1998 32 17 2000 30 18

control of State Legislatures

Year Repub Dem 1992 6 30 1994 8 25 1996 19 18 1998 18 20 2000 17 20

So the cost of barely winning the White House with a neoliberal agenda was the House, the Senate, most of the governorships and a handful of the state legislatures.

Exactly what is the lesson the corporate Dems are trying to teach us?