… The last eight months haven’t been kind to the gaffe-prone Biden. But he has plodded along with his eye on one prize, South Carolina and its African American vote, while making the argument, which few in the media believed, that when the primary turnout reflected a more diverse makeup, […] Read more »
Bernie’s revolution will be postponed until further notice
It now appears that most Democrats don’t want a revolution. Change? Sure. Revolution and chaos? No thank you. The country already has that with the guy in the White House. But after a very rough Super Tuesday, Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his attacks on the […] Read more »
The Carolina Comeback in Light of 2016
If you notice the party scholars in your life walking with a bit of a spring in their step lately — including the authors of The Party Decides, who had kind of a rough 2016 — there’s good reason for this. … The Democratic Party just pulled off something in […] Read more »
Democrats might have the stronger party. They also have a harder job.
The results of this year’s Super Tuesday have resurrected the idea that “the party decides” as well as the candidacy of Joe Biden. What we observed over the last week or so does fit the theory: Rep. Jim Clyburn endorsed Biden, leading him to victory in South Carolina. A few […] Read more »
Trump and Sanders lead competing populist movements, reshaping American politics
… Four years after Trump seized control of the Republican Party with a right-wing populist movement, a new populist crusade has risen on the left, fueled similarly by grievance and anxiety and powered by Sanders’s remarkable drive to dispatch Trump from the White House. Each is powered by a disdain […] Read more »
What Makes Southern Democrats Unique
… The states of the former Confederacy will elect a little over one quarter of Democrats’ pledged delegates in 2020 — six of them on Super Tuesday (Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia). And so as the 2020 Democratic primary contests move to the South, I figured it […] Read more »