It’s these underlying benchmarks that signal the fundamental direction in which USA is heading.

The US Is Moving Left 

Despite Republican Gains

by WILLIAM SALETAN

Republicans won big in the 2014 elections. They captured the Senate and gained seats in the House.

But they didn’t do it by running to the right. They did it, to a surprising extent, by embracing ideas and standards that came from the left.

I’m not talking about gay marriage, on which Republicans have caved, or birth control, on which they’ve made over-the-counter access a national talking point. I’m talking about the core of the liberal agenda: economic equality.

Here are some of the themes Republicans ran on in this year’s Senate and gubernatorial campaigns:

1. Poverty
2. Minorities
3. Equal pay
4. Median income
5. Real unemployment
6. Underemployment
7. Part-time America
8. Upward mobility
9. Income inequality
10. Labor vs. capital
11. Minimum wage
12. Earned income tax credit
13. Progressive taxation

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