The DLC likes to talk about what they brought to the party, as if they led us from a cave. Granted, we got our first 2 term president since FDR... but we also lost the Congress, which we had controlled for 40 years.
The DLC's theories worked when they came out of Clinton's mouth, because he is a gifted politician. They haven't been too good for the party as a whole. The Republicans control all 3 branches of government, now. The Dems have been following the DLC mantra for 12 years... this is the end result of that.