Bill Clinton's economic conservatism did not occur in a vacuum. You will recall Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" and the fact that Republicans obtained a majority in Congress in 1994. Obama is also an economically conservative Democrat and also faced a Republican majority in the House. Progress will be made when the Republican party is fully repudiated and the Democrats take over the political center. The Republican party is showing its true colors in Donald Trump. With the Republicans, you've got a range from "weapons of mass destruction" Dick Chaney to "deport all the Mexicans and Muslims" Donald Trump and their followers range from misogynist Christians to knuckle dragging white supremacists. Mentally stable Americans really have only once choice--making sure the Democrats win so that the Republicans LOSE. To not repudiate Republicans would mean that Americans are a fundamentally defective people--like Republicans.