Wayne Swan warns US Democrats not to fall into Labor's trap of overloaded agenda
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Labor party president Wayne Swan has warned that the United States Democrats could be at risk of the overloaded agenda trap that helped defeat the ALP in May.
Writing in the American progressive journal Democracy Swan, a former treasurer, says that in Labor’s loss, the size of its agenda was more decisive than its shape.
“Labor had too...