White Identity Politics Aren’t Going Anywhere

… As the Democratic Party has evolved from an overwhelmingly white party to a party with a huge minority base, the dominant strategic problem has become the tenuous balance between the priorities of its now equally indispensable white and minority wings. President Trump has aggressively exploited Democratic vulnerabilities as no […] Read more »

Why Latino Voters Haven’t Completely Abandoned The GOP

A sizable bloc of Latino voters have remained aligned with Republicans in the Donald Trump era. This seems surprising, considering that he described Mexicans who sought to come to the United States as drug users and rapists during his 2016 campaign, his administration has adopted anti-immigration policies, and Democrats are […] Read more »

Americans can agree that the nation is divided. Beyond that, they don’t agree on much.

With a new divided government about to take charge in Washington, Americans agree that the nation is more divided — and not on much else. In a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, Republicans voters worry that newly empowered congressional Democrats will go too far in investigating Trump and his administration. Democrats […] Read more »

Winning the Gender Wars

In the 2018 midterms, the women of this country delivered a severe rebuke to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The seeds were planted by the 2017 Women’s March, by many accounts the largest single-day demonstration in American history. Thousands of women subsequently decided to run for office, including […] Read more »