Can Democrats avoid a looming electoral disaster? | #192 – April 17, 2022

The Democratic Party was strongest electorally when it was a party for class-based economic liberalism. Regaining that identity will require compromise, but is its best chance at survival

I have read quite a few articles recently about the Democratic Party’s bleak near- and medium-term electoral future. As far as I can tell, this all started with a guest post by Simon Bazelon, a Yale political science and philosophy student, in Matthew Yglesias’s newsletter Slow Boring. I think the article is good and worth a read; Bazelon presents a goo…