Democratic Party

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• 12/19/19
  

  Reform or Revolution: England’s Lessons of 1688 for Today and Tonight's Democratic Debate

  by David Walter Leinweber

  As we go forward into the holidays, and then a contentious election, the English example in 1688 continues to provide an important lesson. We can cherish our history and institutions, while still being clear-eyed about necessary changes.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/19
  

  Historians Elizabeth Catte, Rebecca Solnit, and Peniel Joseph Quoted in Washington Post Article, "The Democrats Are Moving Left. Will America Follow?"

  They reflect on how all of this might play out in the months and years to come, and how Americans should feel about it.

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• 10/20/19
  

  A Democratic GUT-Check: A Grand Unifying Theory of Democratic Victories

  by Jeff Bloodworth

  The preceding century of Democratic presidential politicking reveals that “electability” is not milquetoast, split the difference centrism. Historically, Democrats win when they adhere to a grand unifying theory (GUT).

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• 8/27/19
  

  A Voting History of American Jews From 1916 to Today

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Historically, Democratic presidential candidates have received a majority of the Jewish vote.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/8/2019
  

  ‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party

  by Barbara Ransby

  You can credit social movements for that.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/10/19
  

  Democrats’ Ominous Shift on School Segregation

  by Brett Gadsden

  It’s not just Joe Biden—the party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/20/19
  

  How Democrats can win the abortion war: Talk about Roe's restrictions as well as rights

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Republicans are lying when they paint us as the party of death and infanticide. Fight back by championing both the right to abortion and limits on it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/6/19
  

  The Coming Generation War

  by Niall Ferguson and Eyck Freymann

  The Democrats are rapidly becoming the party of the young—and the consequences could be profound.

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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.