When I first read the post, about 50% of my reaction was, “this platform could never get traction with a major political party”. But is that true? (...also, is it too meta?)
Scott writes in the piece,
There’s a theory that the US party system realigns every 50-or-so years. Last time, in 1965, it switched from the Democrats being the party of the South and the Republicans being the party for blacks, to vice versa. If the theory’s right, we’re in the middle of an equally big switch. Wouldn’t it be great if the Republicans became the racially diverse party of the working class? You can make it happen!
So I guess that’s my biggest question about all this. Is the realignment theory correct? And more importantly, would a 1960s-magnitude realignment be enough to cause a major US political party to adopt a prominently anti-credentialist, pro-betting, anti-gatekeeping platform?
When I first read the post, about 50% of my reaction was, “this platform could never get traction with a major political party”. But is that true? (...also, is it too meta?)
Scott writes in the piece,
So I guess that’s my biggest question about all this. Is the realignment theory correct? And more importantly, would a 1960s-magnitude realignment be enough to cause a major US political party to adopt a prominently anti-credentialist, pro-betting, anti-gatekeeping platform?