Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics — Beyond the Mandate
What if America’s shift to the right was driven by more than a change in what voters believed?
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Using Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates the transformation of the American political system from the decline of the New Deal coalition through the rise of conservative power in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Ferguson and Rogers challenge the idea that voters simply abandoned liberalism and pushed both…
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