Description
A recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errorsthe pathologies of the New Democratic mindsetand argues urgently against a return to the status quo
Why did the Democrats initially abandon their principles and why havent they been able to grasp that they need a new strategy in the face of decades of diminishing returns In Chaotic Neutral political scientist Ed Burmila breaks it to us tracing the partys metamorphosis from bold defender of labor rights civil rights and a robust social safety net to a timorous ideologyfree regulationaverse lifestyle brand
Chaotic Neutral tracks the evolution or devolution of the Democratic Party from the New Deal era to Bidens statusquo candidacy and the pandemic when even in the midst of a national crisis the Democrats could not manage to pass sweeping progressive legislation It is a timely analysis and simultaneously a timeless one that pinpoints why Dem politicians act like alsorans even when theyre in power
Burmila doesnt pull any punches as he describes the Democrats brand of futility politics but he also doesnt claim that all is futile instead laying out a potent strategy for how the party might abandon its lesseroftwoevils strategy and shift back into drive
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