Welcome to Big DIT to DIFER, The Full Works Weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation

across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork,

and I am joined by our regulars Bill

Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker of

the Week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is Ron Brownstein, senior editor at The Atlantic.

Welcome one and all, and Ron, thank you so much for joining us. A couple of weeks ago, Bill

linked to your peace in the Atlantic about why Democrats are losing the culture wars and we've all read it and think it's so

interesting.

So that's where we would like to begin this week.

You are saying, if I read you correctly,

that this is a moment to reconsider the wisdom of Bill Clinton.

Well, yeah, first of all, thank for having me, although if you had told me in advance

that it was a civil conversation, I'm not sure.

You know, that's a...

You know, that's... You know, I'm not sure I remember how to do that.

Look, I think clearly for the last two presidential cycles, the only time Bill Clinton has been raised

and his experience has been raised

in the Democratic nominating contests

has been to repudiate it.

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