| Sumario: | Since the November 2000 presidential election, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and its leaders in Congress have waged a scorched-earth campaign against populism in the Democratic Party. If the campaign is successful it would deprive Democrats of what historically has been one of their most important ideological assets, as well as making it more troublesome for the party to win back the majority that it lost to conservative Republicans in 1980. Without the DLC's reorientation of Democratic attitudes toward crime, welfare, and big government, Democrats would not be within reach of such a national majority; without a commitment to populism's enduring worldview, however, Democrats will not be able to eventually grasp the majority.
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