lost their seats had won in the 2018 mid-term elections. Of those 13 members, 10 of them were New Democrats. During the 117th United States Congress, the New Democrat Coalition lost its status as the largest ideological coalition in favor of the more left leaning Congressional Progressive Caucus. Ideology According to Dylan Loewe, New Democrats tend to identify as fiscally conservative to fiscally moderate and socially liberal. Columnist Michael Lind argued that neoliberalism for New Democrats was the "highest stage" of left liberalism. The counterculture youth of the 1960s became more fiscally conservative in the 1970s and 1980s but retained their cultural liberalism. Many leading New Democrats, including Bill Clinton, started out in the George McGovern wing of the Democratic Party and gradually moved toward the right on economic and military policy. According to historian Walter Scheidel, both major political parties shifted towards promoting free-market capitalism in the 1970s, with Republicans moving further to the political right than Democrats to the political left. He noted that Democrats played a significant role in the financial deregulation of the 1990s. Anthropologist Jason Hickel and historian Gary Gerstle contended that the neoliberal policies of the Reagan era were carried forward by the Clinton administration, forming a new economic consensus which crossed party lines. According to Gerstle, "across his two terms, Clinton may have done more to free markets from regulation than even Reagan himself had done." New Democrats have faced criticism from those further to the left. In a 2017 BBC interview, Noam Chomsky said that "the Democrats gave up on the working class forty years ago". Political analyst Thomas Frank asserted that the Democratic Party began to represent the interests of the professional class rather than the working class. Elected to public office Presidents Bill Clinton (former) Barack Obama (former) Joe Biden Vice presidents Al Gore (former) Joe Biden (former) Senate Chuck Schumer Evan Bayh (former) Mark Begich (former) Jacky Rosen Jeanne Shaheen Maria Cantwell Tom Carper Bob Casey Jr. Max Cleland (former) Hillary Clinton (former) Kent Conrad (former) Chris Coons Joe Donnelly (former) Byron Dorgan (former) Dianne Feinstein Al Gore (former) Maggie Hassan Heidi Heitkamp (former) John Hickenlooper Tim Johnson (former) Doug Jones (former) Ted Kaufman (former) Amy Klobuchar Kirsten Gillibrand Mary Landrieu (former) Joe Lieberman (former) Blanche Lincoln (former) Claire McCaskill (former) Bill Nelson (former) Barack Obama (former) Mark Pryor (former) Ken Salazar (former) Debbie Stabenow Jon Tester Mark Warner