The party has lost its taste for fratricide. The party has lost its taste for fratricide. If Democrats are doing less infighting, it isn't because they've reached some sort of ideological consensus. On the main issues of domestic and economic policy, the disagreements among Democrats are greater than the gap between Bill Clinton and the Republicans in Congress.
Traditional Democrats think balancing the budget is a big mistake.
Liberals are still smarting over the fact that he signed the welfare-reform bill. To centrists, it was a moral and political leap forward. Labor unions are intent on stopping trade liberalization. Others on the party's left manifest an even more striking change in attitude. Take a look at The New Majority , a recent collection of essays by left-wing economic populists.