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Once the Party of Business, Republicans Have Gone Rogue
In the days after January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an abortive attempt to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election, a number of corporate leaders stepped forward to announce that they were temporarily suspending their financial support for the Republican Party. Four years later, an A-list of America’s business elites crowded into the same building to take their front-row seats for Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
A Brief History of the Democratic Party
Interview by Doug Henwood Following Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and the subsequent scrambling of the Democratic Party to oust him from the presidential ticket, many voters could be forgiven for wondering how on Earth a party could be this dysfunctional. The answer lies in the historical idiosyncrasies of Democrats and the American political system as a whole, as political scientist Adam Hilton recently explained.
A Brief History of the Democratic Party
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Mount Holyoke professor reacts to Biden’s withdrawal from election
With President Joseph Biden ending the campaign for his reelection, the Democratic Party now faces the task of finding a new 2024 presidential nominee. Although Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison has stated that there will be no automatic coronation for his replacement.
Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl Odds and Road To The Super Bowl 2022
The Arizona Cardinals qualified for the Play-Offs with an 11-6 record, finishing second in the NFC West and becoming the 5th seed in the NFC. Let’s take a look at the Cardinals Super Bowl odds, and their path to the big game, including who they may face on the way.
Biden’s pandemic relief plan offered broad new social programs. Is that part of a Democratic ‘paradigm shift’?
Last week, after a strict party-line vote in Congress, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. Republicans criticized the sweeping legislation as “haphazard” and “unrelated” to the pandemic. Democrats appeared to lean into this critique, promoting the new law’s far-reaching scope with a confidence not seen in decades.
Commentary: Dems must work to rebuild party at state, local levels
As speculation grows over the character and agenda of the incoming administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., it has become clear that one of the greatest challenges he will face is managing the Democratic Party. Moderates and progressives have already had a significant head-on collision in the aftermath of the 2020 elections, in which congressional Democrats were widely considered to have underperformed.
Wisconsin Petri Dish: Voting Amid The COVID Crisis
Voters observe social distancing guidelines as they wait in line to cast ballots at Washington High School while ignoring a stay-at-home order over the coronavirus threat to vote in the state's presidential primary election, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee. Morry Gash/AP Wisconsin’s primary, held in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, portends serious trouble for the November elections that should give everyone pause.
Analysis | Sanders is out. Does that mean that ‘the party decides’ after all?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has suspended his race for the Democratic presidential nomination, leaving the establishment-favored former vice president Joe Biden as the party’s presumptive nominee. Over the last five years, Sanders has headed an insurgency within the Democratic electorate, blaming Democratic elites for failing to combat mounting economic inequality.
Analysis | Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.
Monkey Cage Analysis Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld speaks during a New England Council "Politics & Eggs" breakfast in Bedford, N.H. (Charles Krupa/AP) April 29 at 7:45 AM Recently, Massachusetts’ former Republican governor Bill Weld announced he will challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries for the 2020 election.
Searching for New Politics
For the past six months, it’s been hard not to “feel the Bern.” Stepping into the political space opened up by Occupy, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has done what many thought impossible: inject a class discourse into the Democratic nomination race. But it is a telling bit of historical amnesia that Sanders’s call for a “political revolution” does not bring to mind the last time a self-described “political revolution” was engineered within the Democratic Party: the New Politics movement.
The Path to Polarization: McGovern-Fraser, Counter-Reformers, and the Rise of the Advocacy Party
American politics has been transformed by the emergence of the advocacy party—a form of organization in which extraparty interest groups, advocacy organizations, and social movements substitute for the diminished institutional capacity and popular legitimacy of the formal party apparatus.
The Democratic Party’s latest reform commission just met. It’s likely to slash the power of superdelegates.
On Friday and Saturday, the Democratic Party’s Unity Reform Commission (URC) held its final meeting in Washington. The commission was created to re-examine the Democrats’ presidential nominating process after the party’s 2016 national convention. For the past six months, most of the commission’s rather technical deliberations passed under the radar.
Donna Brazile States the Obvious
The revelations from former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chair Donna Brazile created quite a stir in national politics. Her Politico article, “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC,” an extract from a forthcoming tell-all book, had everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Donald Trump buzzing about Hillary Clinton’s “rigged” primary contest against Bernie Sanders.
Bernie and the Search for New Politics
Bernie Sanders has called for a “political revolution.” But the New Politics movement shows the challenges of accomplishing that within the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders’s bid for the Democratic nomination, his socialist self-identification, and his call for a “political revolution” in the United States has stirred up considerable discussion on the Left.
Searching for New Politics
Because they were pushing such a radical plan, it should come as no surprise that New Politics faced severe opposition within the party. Perhaps more surprising was its principal source: the top officials of the AFL-CIO. Since the New Deal, the labor movement’s national leadership had been working to realign the party further to the left, mostly by attempting to replace its southern conservative wing in Congress with liberal Democrats supportive of progressive labor legislation.
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