… Mr. Sanders may have been the runner-up in the last Democratic primary, but instead of expanding his nucleus of support, in the fashion of most repeat candidates, the Vermont senator is struggling to retain even what he garnered two years ago, when he was far less of a political […] Read more »
Liberal Democrats seem to be looking for new national faces
… Who will emerge as the favorite among Democrats: an establishment candidate, like Hillary Clinton; or a progressive alternative, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? Will the 2020 contest again result in a near-even draw between those two sides? More important, who will Democrats nominate? What’s remarkable about a new USA […] Read more »
A Survey Finds That All Americans Favor Democratic Norms Over Politics—Except in the Case of Voting
The Bright Line Watch team is at it again, exploring the resilience of democratic norms in America, as the Trump Presidency, entering its third year, seems ever more cavalier about them. … This time around, the team has issued a report on a new survey called “Party, Policy, Democracy and […] Read more »
The Democratic and Anti-democratic parties
A realignment of America’s two major parties is under way. It will not be mostly defined by demographics, as some analysts have suggested. Rather, it will be defined by ideas about democracy and the rule of law. To put it simply, we are headed for an era in which America […] Read more »
2020 GOP Win Happens If Never Trumpers Step Aside
The results of our latest national survey of 1,000 likely 2020 presidential year voters, conducted between Dec. 10-14, show that even with all the media bias and attacks on the president, really not much has changed since our postelection poll of 1,000 people voting on Nov. 6 of this year. […] Read more »
How Trump and Brexit united Europe
Emanuel Deutschmann, European University Institute and Lara Minkus, Universität Bremen Europeans across the English Channel are nervously watching Britain’s debate over Brexit, fearful of what the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union will mean for their decades-old economic and political bloc. British Prime Minister Theresa May on Dec. 11 […] Read more »