last gasp of the new deal coalition, basically
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Completely unrecognizable politics
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Fox started in 1996 and since then it's gotten more right wing
Deliver that "Fair Deal for America" wrapped up in the guise of a straight white guy, and we'll win--IF the U.S. ever has open POTUS elections again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx924r4d5yno
All Dems need to get on board and start talking it up now. And good branding.
I think Bush senior might have been a turning point for them.
However it is a mistake to assume that is inevitable here. CA Dems are the best organized state party and fosters a very strong sense of allegiance. We value putting in the time and work and earning our support.
It was obviously false by exit polling, general polling, and also any awareness of the 1992 political milieu.
we had generously maybe one good governor in ann richards
In 1959, Alaska and Hawaii were both made states as part of a deal--Alaska was admitted as an obviously blue state to balance obviously red Hawaii.
"[Carter's] unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to these events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor."
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-obituary-neoliberalism-foreign-policy
Cowardice.