Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday November 15 1994 — Page 19 Elections the latest in long line of unanswered DK so Democrat and the you’re wbrld has just collapsed all around you What do you do? First you admit your party had it com-fi- g This doesn’t mean conceding that the tepublieans on the basis either of their tbcent White House record or of their ttterly demagogic promises are entitled to the people’s trust but it does mean admitting that the Democrats have not been worthy of it primarily because they 'long ago became a constellation of factions revolving around I power-shari- ng an intellectual vacuum Second you avoid the serious mistake of trying to make President Clinton the scapegoat for the disaster of Nov 8 There are of things for which he can and plenty should be blamed but at most he deserves only a partial share of the blame state-by-sta- district-by-distri- ct te for this one Third you spend the next few years trying to refashion your party into a coherent whole with something approaching the Republicans’ discipline The devil will be in the details of course and you will not lack for advice about which way to move Some will say the obvious which is that the present electorate is more conservative than the Democratic Party They will then leap to the conclusion that the Democratic Party should promptly move to the center Others will argue that the nation does not need two Republican parties and that it is time to build a new Democratic coalition along more traditional lines This means expanding the party base by energizing the millions of Americans who have decided the system doesn't work on their behalf It means that Democrats should embrace rather than avoid populism In a time of international conglomerates and big business-bi- g government alliances the party should again speak for the common man rather than the major contributors Whatever the next steps may be honest is an essential precondition First and foremost the party must accept that it cannot be all things to all people keeping the president’s example in mind Second it must realize that the past is past That means there is virtually no point in seeking credit for the social safety net that cocoons the middle class Most Americans take it as their due rather than as a hard-wo- n accomplishment of the self-apprai- 19th century was winding down Now as then politics can be one of the tools of assimilation Now as then the Democratic Party is positioned to be the party that meets the challenge and benefits from it Hodding Carter Nor does a move to incorporate new Americans into a recharged Democratic Party mean writing off everyone else a sure prescription for permanent minority fault lines in status There are quake-size- d the new Republican coalition to exploit Try as they may to paper over their differences the libertarian and authoritarian wings of the GOP are going to find it difficult to coexist once they are fighting over party direction rather than against Democrats from that envisioned by Republicans in the booming suburbs of Northern Virginia a point driven home by the defeat of senatorial candidate Oliver North in a race almost any orthodox Republican would have won Whether or not history repeats itself along those lines the Democrats in their present configuration arc destined to be the minority party for years to come Substantive even radical change is required Last week's election results were only the latest in a long line of wake-u- p calls all of which have gone unanswered But that leaves a vast territory open for development At the end of this century the ethnic and racial face of America is changing as rapidly as it was when the All of this should be considered as Democrats make their way through the rubble But there is another option that might be the most attractive of all It is to 61994 Newspaper Enterprise Assn For information on how to communicate with this columnist and others contact America Online by calling ext 8317 For instance Senate but Abbell failed to inform the committee that he was a lawyer for the cartel at the time the Christian Coalition Jt by arguing that his the Senate was before appearance not on behalf of the Cali cartel but as a representative of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers non-disclos- That same year Abbell also unsuccessfully lobbied the State Department to allow his clients to o ' s'"' stand trial in the United States and later to serve their sentences in Colombia Last year Abbell traveled to Colombia to try to negoti- K '' ' '4 ' ' - I ate settlements for some 60 traffickers with Gustavo de Gicifij Colombia’s chief prosecutor at the time Although de Greiff cut no deal with Rodriguez who US officials say continues his drug trafficking activities the Colom- I ' ' -'- k'1 s ‘ s rf I' "?' 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