It's the Working Class, Stupid - The American Prospect
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
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John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
Larry Bartels is an American political scientist and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Shayne Chair in Public Policy and Social Science here at Vanderbilt University. He has published books such as Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of The New Gilded Age and Democracy for Realists. In our conversation,...
Auditing U.S. Democracy The presidency of Donald Trump catapulted the topic of democracy to the forefront of political thought and discussion. This is for good reason: Throughout the past four years, we witnessed the creation of an immigration policy that is tantamount to ethnic cleansing; a president who used twitter and campaign rallies to stoke white nationalist hostility; the emergence of an authoritarian love triangle between the president, cops, and far-right vigilantes; displays of symbolic and literal violence against the press; and most recently a president who, with the support of G...