The Yuppie Candidate

"Though they were a minority in the country, the well-educated baby boomers who had come to the fore in the first half of the '80s effectively became America’s ruling class. Their basic political philosophy—liberal on social issues, conservative on economic ones—dominated for decades, with support for gay marriage and abortion rights growing at the same time that taxes continued to be cut and globalization increased."

Tom McGrath at Politico describes Gary Hart as the proto-Bill Clinton.