{"id":77647,"date":"2026-08-20T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/we-are-finally-witnessing-the-decline-of-corporate-democrats-robert-reich\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:55:55","slug":"we-are-finally-witnessing-the-decline-of-corporate-democrats-robert-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/we-are-finally-witnessing-the-decline-of-corporate-democrats-robert-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats | Robert Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class<\/p>\n<p>Most discussions about the Democratic party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats, such as the Florida state representative Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who scored an upset win in the Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But an equally big story is the remarkable decline of corporate Democrats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/20\/corporate-democrats-decline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class Most discussions about the Democratic party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats, such as the Florida state representative Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who scored an upset win &#8230; <a title=\"We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats | Robert Reich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/we-are-finally-witnessing-the-decline-of-corporate-democrats-robert-reich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats | Robert Reich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}