Re: The Teixeira thesis

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Teixeira first propounded the thesis with co-author John Judis in The
> Emerging Democratic Majority, which appeared shortly before the US
> mid-term elections in 2002 – unfortunate timing, because these saw a
> sharp swing to the Republicans. But Teixeira says the election was an
> aberration resulting from the effects of 9/11, and a demographic
> analysis of the vote still points to the long-term ascendancy of the
> Democrats.

This is the same Judis who stumped for contra funding in the 1980s. I 
don't doubt that more and more people will flock to the Democrats as the 
Republicans get worse and worse. What is open to question is whether 
this will address the fundamental problems of American society as the 
Democrats keep shifting to the right. Teixeira works for The Century 
Foundation, which is a kind of centrist stronghold with people like the 
wretched Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on the board.


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