The "Emerging Democratic Majority" in American politics, and its failure to emerge
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A key thing about recent days in American politics is that we’re seeing huge Republican victories, given by a Supreme Court in the midst of a Democratic presidency (of course with most Supreme Court members nominated by Republican presidents and confirmed by Republican Congresses). Two weeks ago I read the book Emerging Democratic Majority from 2002, by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira (from now: J & T). This book predicted that a situation like this wouldn’t happen; that the Democrats would have a good chance of being in the driver’s seat – maintain presidency and Congress, a general social hegemony – for the coming decades. Clearly this wasn’t so. Why?
The "Emerging Democratic Majority" in American politics, and its failure to emerge
The "Emerging Democratic Majority" in…
The "Emerging Democratic Majority" in American politics, and its failure to emerge
A key thing about recent days in American politics is that we’re seeing huge Republican victories, given by a Supreme Court in the midst of a Democratic presidency (of course with most Supreme Court members nominated by Republican presidents and confirmed by Republican Congresses). Two weeks ago I read the book Emerging Democratic Majority from 2002, by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira (from now: J & T). This book predicted that a situation like this wouldn’t happen; that the Democrats would have a good chance of being in the driver’s seat – maintain presidency and Congress, a general social hegemony – for the coming decades. Clearly this wasn’t so. Why?