Iceraven hasn’t burned me yet

Triangulation under Clinton was literally accepting all GOP economic policies and enacting NAFTA while merely paying lip service to labor and traditional constituencies. Democrats have been a party largely moving rightward since at least the early 90s. Adopting GOP economics in a seemingly more appealing package meant the GOP needed to differentiate ushering in Gringrich’s culture wars, erosion of comity in DC, and a lot of the other ills we live with today.