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USA 2016: moving to the Left is the key to win the Presidency

In his book Conscience of a liberal, Paul Krugman argued that the current exacerbated polarisation between the two major U.S. parties sinks its roots in the Republican Party’s drift towards the extreme Right, taken hostage by the conservative movement. In Krugman’s view, twenty-first century Republicans adopt positions reminiscent of their predecessors in the roaring Twenties, leaving the Democrats alone in the defence of the very same New Deal programmes and Institutions that every respectable Republicans (think of Eisenhower) would once have endorsed.