Your essay is generally reasonable, but I think it reflects a distorted leftist view of the real electoral problems faced by Democrats. The problems of US society can be viewed as an economic struggle between the haves and have-nots, but this fails to explain why so many Americans loathe the contemporary Democratic party. As you suggest,…
Your essay is generally reasonable, but I think it reflects a distorted leftist view of the real electoral problems faced by Democrats. The problems of US society can be viewed as an economic struggle between the haves and have-nots, but this fails to explain why so many Americans loathe the contemporary Democratic party. As you suggest, Democratic theorists are often too blinded to recognize the nuggets of wisdom in critiques from e.g. Fox News. I suggest that THE electoral problem Democrats face is their Culture War extremism.
Your essay is generally reasonable, but I think it reflects a distorted leftist view of the real electoral problems faced by Democrats. The problems of US society can be viewed as an economic struggle between the haves and have-nots, but this fails to explain why so many Americans loathe the contemporary Democratic party. As you suggest, Democratic theorists are often too blinded to recognize the nuggets of wisdom in critiques from e.g. Fox News. I suggest that THE electoral problem Democrats face is their Culture War extremism.