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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Description: In 2002, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner). Now the pair are back with Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes (Henry Holt, 2023). In their new book, an essential guide to the trends that roil the Democratic Party and threaten its national standing, the authors forthrightly acknowledge that they had underestimated âthe defection of the white working classâ from party ranks. Our conversation focuses on a core reason for this defection: the rise of a âshadow partyâ of elite donors, activist groups and media voices that is alien...