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How America's Political Parties Change (and How They Don't) (Hardcover)
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How America's Political Parties Change (and How They Don't) (Hardcover)
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The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists
to write obituaries for the Republican Party-or prophecies of a new
dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two
great parties has a setback, we've heard: "This is the end of the
Democratic Party," or, "The Republican Party is going out of
existence." Yet both survive, and thrive. We have the oldest and
third oldest political parties in the world-the Democratic Party
founded in 1832 to reelect Andrew Jackson, the Republican Party
founded in 1854 to oppose slavery in the territories. They are
older than almost every American business, most American colleges,
and many American churches. Both have seemed to face extinction in
the past, and have rebounded to be competitive again. How have they
managed it? Michael Barone, longtime co-author of The Almanac of
American Politics, brings a deep understanding of our electoral
history to the question and finds a compelling answer. He
illuminates how both parties have adapted, swiftly or haltingly, to
shifting opinion and emerging issues, to economic change and
cultural currents, to demographic flux. At the same time, each has
maintained a constant character. The Republican Party appeals to
"typical Americans" as understood at a given time, and the
Democratic Party represents a coalition of "out-groups." They are
the yin and yang of American political life, together providing
vehicles for expressing most citizens' views in a nation that has
always been culturally, religiously, economically, and ethnically
diverse. The election that put Donald Trump in the White House may
have appeared to signal a dramatic realignment, but in fact it
involved less change in political allegiances than many before, and
it does not portend doom for either party. How America's Political
Parties Change (and How They Don't) astutely explains why these two
oft-scorned institutions have been so resilient.
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