David Schultz
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The Democratic Party, the DSA and the Last Hurrah (opens the original)
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Photograph Source: Daniel Torok – Public Domain Across New York, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, a familiar fight is playing out inside the Democratic Party. Centrist stalwarts and Democratic Socialists of America-aligned insurgents are squaring off in primary after primary, and the press keeps covering it as though it were a simple ideological dispute, left versus center, socialism versus liberalism. It is that, but it is also something else. It is generational. And anyone who has
What's Wrong With the Left: The First Rule of Politics (opens the original)
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I have saved for last the rule the new-new left seems most thoroughly to have forgotten, because every other fault finally runs through it. The first purpose of politics is to assemble a coalition large enough to win elections and take power. Everything else, every program and principle, is inert until that majority exists. This is not cynicism; it is the precondition of doing any good at all. Dahl understood democratic politics as the patient construction of majorities out of overlapping minori
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