Politics in America “What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment…the first lines of defense against a demagogue no longer hold” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 March 2016 What Trump has demonstrated is that in our present cultural environment, and in the...
Politics in America “…Republicans are likely to be highly unified and mobilized around the direction they want the country to go. Democrats are different…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 Despite all the turmoil in the Republican Party today and the divisions over who...
Politics in America “Obama’s election set off a profound reaction on the conservative side that implicated everything about people’s view of themselves and of America” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 The historic 2008 election was a turning point, when a reshaped Democratic coalition backing...
Internet, Politics in America “There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of the seventh party system” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of...
Politics in America “The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of exploiting the darkest American undercurrents began with Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2016 The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American party system is not only a creation of the press; it is dependent on it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2016 The American party system is not only a creation of the press; it is...
Politics in America “The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the aisle, in bonds of populist unrest” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2016 The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the...
Journalism, Politics in America “Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 February 2016 Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites. (The printing...
Politics in America ” The energy of this campaign has been generated on the margins, by two kinds of Americans: younger, better-educated, more urban ones on the Democratic side; older, more working-class, whiter ones on the Republican side.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 Sanders’s persistently surprising popularity shows that the Democratic establishment grasped the deep alienation of...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American two-party system is a creation of the press” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 The American two-party system is a creation of the press. “The idea of a...