Category Democratic Party History
The Democrats Democracy Problem
In an era where the GOP is increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic, we need the Democrats to defend democracy and advocate for good public policy. But the party as we’re learning from the David Hogg situation has a democracy probleminternally. Kartik Krishnaiyer who has been active in the party for 30 years has seen this before. […]
The Democrats are dead nationally
The Democrats today resemble the GOP of the 1930s. Completely incoherent in their messaging and losing serious ground not just electorally, but in terms of voter registration even in the bluest of areas nationally. The ineptitude with which the Republicans faced the New Deal era Democrats is repeating itself today with the Dem Party’s failings […]
Have the Democrats become the party of the Managerial Class? Is this why the GOP are suddenly populists?
Populism doesn’t just “happen.” Populism throughout US History has been a counter-reaction to something that has impacted the working class negatively. William Jennings Bryan’s emergence in the 1896 Democratic Convention came after Grover Cleveland’s “Bourbon Democrats” had very clearly favored the monied interests of the budding Gilded Age over that of the people. The progressive […]
Democrats understanding the working class – an increasingly losing battle?
The Democratic Party I grew up in was all about the legacy of the New Deal. Coming of political age around condo commandos in south Florida, I’d hear stories about FDR, Truman, Robert Wagner, Tip O’Neill, Hubert Humphrey, about organizing, protests, strikes, labor movements, when John Lindsay ran as a third party liberal and beat […]
The Florida Squeeze 