The Empty Majority
Ross Douthat JULY 29, 2017
When we think about the ebb and flow of majorities in American politics, we like to imagine that there is a clear link between politics and policy – between gaining power and having an agenda to implement, between winning votes and responding to substantive challenges, between F.D.R’s majorities and his New Deal or Reagan’s victories and his Reaganomics.
The present-day Republican Party makes a mockery of this conceit. It is a majority party that behaves like it’s in the political wilderness, an election-winning machine that has no idea what to do with national power.
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