Democratic Party

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/27/19
  

  Centrism and moderation? No thanks.

  by April Holm

  In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/11/19
  

  The Democrats’ dilemma: two parties in one

  by Niall Ferguson

  In their eagerness to recruit a new generation of young voters, the Democrats have — not for the first time in their history — admitted a faction of radical ideologues into their midst.

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• 2/16/19
  

  What Dinesh D’Souza's "Death of a Nation" Gets Wrong About Martin Van Buren

  by Mark Cheathem

  D’Souza’s inability, or unwillingness, to ground his case in actual evidence calls into question his motivation and suggests that he wants to use history as partisan propaganda, not as a way to illuminate the past.

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• SOURCE: politico
  9-7-18
  

  The New Socialism Is More American Than You Think (And Also More Radical)

  by Jedediah Purdy

  Much of today’s “socialism” was once the bread and butter of the Democratic Party.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-27-18
  

  No, the GOP wasn't the party of civil rights in the 1960s

  by Kevin Kruse

  "If you have to go back to the 1860s or even the 1960s to claim the "party of civil rights" mantle, you're clearly grasping at straws."

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• 7/8/18
  

  Has Democratic Socialism a Future in American Politics?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  If it does, it likely will occur within the Democratic Party. There’s already evidence showing it has.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  4-7-18
  

  The Party of Hubert Humphrey

  by James Traub

  The Democratic presidential candidate believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-23-17
  

  Debunking the claim that "The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."

  There is little doubt that the political interests of the Klan and the Democratic Party, at least in the early years, intersected. But there is no evidence that it was founded as part of the Democratic Party, or that the party ever even had an official "military arm."

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• 7-23-17
  

  The Real Reason LBJ Didn’t Run for Re-Election in 1968

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  No, it wasn’t because he thought he’d lose. He thought he could win.

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• 4-23-17
  

  Six Strategies To Revitalize the Democratic Party

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  What Democrats today can learn from the Democrats of the 1950s.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-27-17
  

  The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

  by Musa al-Gharbi

  The Democratic Party is in crisis. Demographics will be unlikely to save them. If anything, the trend seems to be going in the other direction.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Politics
  1-2-17
  

  Presidential historian Allan Lichtman says Obama’s worst legacy is the collapse of the Democratic Party (Interview)

  “He has forgotten what the great iconic Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt always taught, and that is, you not only have to be an innovator of policy, have you to be a party-builder."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-1-16
  

  People are still talking about historian Mark Lilla’s NYT op ed 2 weeks after it was published

  Lilla, a historian at Columbia, argued that the Democratic Party has lost its way by focusing on identity politics.

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• 11-13-16
  

  Don’t Blame Hillary Clinton

  by Allan J. Lichtman

  The historian who predicted Trump’s victory says Democrats need to revamp their party by adopting Bernie Sanders’s approach (but not on trade).

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• 3-13-16
  

  FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Dinesh D’Souza Claims in a New Film that the Democratic Party Was Pro-Slavery.

  by Michael Todd Landis

  Here’s the sad truth.

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• 6-7-15
  

  The Hypocritical and Shameful History of the Democratic Party Before the Civil War

  by Michael Todd Landis

  Though they called themselves democrats, they weren’t.

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• 1-4-15
  

  Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  We may be about to find out. 

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• What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

  by Rick Perlstein

  How the Democrats turned right and lost America. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-2-13
  

  Dukakis and the Myth of Democratic Extremism

  by Rick Perlstein

  Dukakis was not an ideological candidate.