Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Then-presidential nominee Bill Clinton waves to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention in 1992. (Photo by Steve Liss/Getty Images)
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira explain how liberals lost their way.
In the past few decades, the Democratic Party has undergone a seismic shift. Kitchen-table issues like the economy and public safety have been overshadowed by more elitist topics like identity politics, gender ideology, defunding the police, climate change, and the vaguely defined yet rigidly enforced ideology of anti-racism, which sees white supremacy …
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