He said Democrats have “something to lose.”
Clinton, appearing with his wife Hillary Clinton, was speaking at a symposium honoring the late Madeleine Albright, who served as his secretary of state.
“Politics is about power,” Clinton said, adding that elections are “zero-sum games.”
Federal and state Democrats have adopted increasingly left-wing positions, including large government spending programs and lenient criminal justice regulations.
Prominent elected Democrats such as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York call themselves “democratic socialists.”
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