A key thing about recent days in American politics is that we’re seeing huge Republican victories, given by a Supreme Court in the midst of a Democratic presidency (of course with most Supreme Court members nominated by Republican presidents and confirmed by Republican Congresses). Two weeks ago I read the book Emerging Democratic Majority from 2002, by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira (from now: J & T). This book predicted that a situation like this wouldn’t happen; that the Democrats would have a good chance of being in the driver’s seat – maintain presidency and Congress, a general social hegemony – for the coming decades. Clearly this wasn’t so. Why?
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A key thing about recent days in American politics is that we’re seeing huge Republican victories, given by a Supreme Court in the midst of a Democratic presidency (of course with most Supreme Court members nominated by Republican presidents and confirmed by Republican Congresses). Two weeks ago I read the book Emerging Democratic Majority from 2002, by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira (from now: J & T). This book predicted that a situation like this wouldn’t happen; that the Democrats would have a good chance of being in the driver’s seat – maintain presidency and Congress, a general social hegemony – for the coming decades. Clearly this wasn’t so. Why?