Clinton’s Big Tent is not a temporary, election season dwelling. It
is how she plans to govern. The exodus from the GOP has suddenly
transformed the Democratic Party into the primary political instrument
of the ruling class, while at the same time the party nominally
represents most of the folks who are abused and misused by that ruling
class. It is an inherently unstable arrangement, and will soon be
wracked by splits, as a post-Trump GOP attempts to lure its fat cats
back and the darker and poorer constituencies consigned to the latrine
area of Hillary’s high class tent break to the Left for air.
But in the interim, Clinton will have a unique opportunity to cut
grand austerity deals with all the “big elements” of Simpson-Bowles, to
renege on her corporate trade promises, and to wage war with great gusto
in the name of a “united” country. Ever since the Democratic National
Convention it has been clear that the Clintonites are encouraged to
consider everyone outside of their grand circle to be suspect,
subversive, or depraved. Their inclusive rhetoric is really an
invocation of a ruling class consensus, now that Trump has supposedly
brought the ruling class together under one banner. In Hillary’s tent,
the boardrooms are always in session.
-- Glen Ford, "Hillary’s “Big Tent” is Obama’s “Grand Bargain” on Steroids" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).