'Democrats who attack from the center don't always think through the potential impact of their words. ... If they are not careful, the moderates might end up doing exactly what Republicans are hoping for,' writes julianzelizer for CNNOpinion
Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the forthcoming book,"Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party." Follow him on Twitter: @julianzelizer. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
"I believe we should move to make college affordable for everybody," Buttigieg says in the ad."There are some voices saying, 'Well that doesn't count unless you go even further, unless it's free even for the kids of millionaires. But I only want to make promises that we can keep." The mayor's critics have pounced on this line of attack.
This is what black voters want to see from Pete Buttigieg 03:06Yet Democrats — from Presidents Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson — learned that they could not contain the fallout from this style of partisan warfare. Eventually, no matter how hawkish the Democrats were, Republicans went after them as being part of the party that was too weak on defense. When former Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey made a bid for the presidential nomination in 1972, he condemned South Dakota Sen.
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