That's the headline in The Hill. It is datelined May 19 at 6:11 pm, but I don't see any discussion of it here.
Here is the gist of Markos' argument: Obama gave a very liberal State of the Union speech this year and it was written by John Podesta. Hillary then hired Podesta to chair her campaign.
That simple connection suggests Clinton is shedding her husband’s ideological baggage and aiming for a truly progressive presidency. Why, after all, would Podesta help craft such an explicitly liberal State of the Union address if he was then going to help take it all back with Clinton? That address might have been the beginning of a rhetorical bridge spanning the Obama and future Clinton presidencies.
If you oppose Clinton from the left, you might scoff at such logic. But the actions of her nascent campaign certainly support that theory.
She also hired Robby Mook who ran McAuliffe's successful campaign for governor in Virginia.
Mook instead focused heavily on the ethnically and racially diverse D.C. suburbs in Northern Virginia and African-American communities in places like Richmond, and delivered an elusive off-year electoral victory for Democrats. In fact, Mook was so successful, there was no African-American voter drop-off between 2012 and 2013.
Markos reasons that Clinton could just as easily have hired Mark Penn, but she picked Mook to turn out base supporters.
And then there's this:
On actual substance, Clinton’s early speechifying is also cause for optimism. On immigration, she now supports measures far beyond anything Obama has proposed, generating enthusiastic support from the Hispanic community. She’s been saying all the right things on police brutality and criminal reform (as her husband admits the mistakes of his get-tough-on-crime policies). And on income inequality, where even her staunchest liberal supporters can be skeptical, Clinton is striking a populist tone — and her lack of support for the president’s lobbying efforts on behalf of his Pacific trade deal hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Markos concludes that no one should worry about getting Sanders or Warren to push Clinton to the left because she is already there.
