Democrats' Quiet Campaign Revolution

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Julian Zelizer : A quiet revolution has been unfolding in how Democrats campaign.

He says it helps explain why the Harris-Walz ticket is pulling ahead of the opposition.

Democrats are suddenly allowed to say what they mean, no trimming, no apologies, no rhetorical bank shots.

Zelizer says the party of “Give ’em hell” Harry Truman into its modern-day defensive crouch.

John Kerry's candidacy was built upon a foundation of inauthenticity, says Peggy Drexler .

She says Democrats had their own, photo-negative version of truthiness: utterances that are meticulously factual but that convey an unmistakable emotional falsiness.

Kerry had to force himself to pretend he had never known that to be true in Vietnam , she says.

The one guy who could tell the truth about Iraq was Howard Dean , but Democratic elites pushed him out of the race.

Peggy Drexler : Democrats bought that the success of Reaganism, and the supposed failings of liberalism, proved what Republicans said it did.

She says now, we can tell them the truth, and let them call it hell, and now we can do that.

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