A progressive Hillary?

Progressive, yes.

Social democrat, not so much.

Socialist, phooey.

Only in the minimal sense that anybody who's OK with public K through 12, public streets, public fire departments, and the like is that far a socialist.

Certainly better in many ways than any Republican would be.

Hillary gives a speech

Hillary Clinton pledged to fight for higher wages and lift the American middle class on Monday, in a speech that outlined her economic agenda and saw the Democratic presidential candidate take a more aggressive tone towards her Republican rivals.

Speaking at the New School in Greenwich Village, a New York university known for its progressive worldview, Clinton placed income inequality and improving the conditions of everyday Americans at the heart of her pitch to grow the economy and increase wages.

“I believe we have to build a growth and fairness economy,” she said. “You can’t have one without the other.

“We must raise incomes for hard-working Americans so they can afford a middle-class life. We must drive strong and steady income growth that lifts up families and lifts up our country. That will be my mission from the first day I’m president to the last.”

To alleviate the financial burden on middle-class Americans, Clinton emphasized policies such as paid family leave, lowering childcare costs, passing equal pay for women and raising the minimum wage.

There is more.

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There is actually quite a lot of detail, though she promises more in future.

Much of it locates her clearly to Bernie's right, like her promises to keep and strengthen Obamacare.

Medicare for all? Guess not.

She has a lot to say about managing capitalism, not destroying or replacing it, to make it less risky, less inequitable, and less harsh on the worst off, going beyond Dodd-Frank, for example.

She promises later to provide plans dealing with the rising costs of higher education, and I would expect that, too, to be less lefty than what Bernie has proposed.