The Republican electoral sweep of 2010 set up a decade of anti-democratic destructiveness culminating in Donald Trump. But the tide’s about to turn.
Stanley B. Greenberg
Stanley B. Greenberg, a founding partner of Greenberg Research, Democracy Corps, and Climate Policy & Strategy, and Prospect board member, is a New York Times best-selling author and co-author of It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!
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Unlearning the Lessons of Hillbilly Elegy
America’s beleaguered poor and working class have a host of problems, but the culture of irresponsibility that J.D. Vance says they’re prey to isn’t one of them.
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The Broad Support for Taxing the Wealthy
Why Democrats should run on rolling back the tax cut and raising taxes on the rich
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How She Lost
Malpractice cost Clinton the election, but her ambivalence on big issues was produced by big structural factors that affect all Democrats.
Posted inWorking in America
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Progressive Policies Can Lead to a Democratic Majority
The new American electorate could offer a durable majority–if Democrats address economic needs with progressive policies, not centrist ones.
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Mandela on the Campaign Trail
A memory of Nelson Mandela’s presidential campaign, from his former pollster.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Winning With the Economy — or Without It
Candidates running with the economy against them have a tougher go, but it’s possible to win by changing the conversation.
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Democrats Are Back — But…
There’s a catch: The Republicans have so discredited government that Democrats will encounter trouble backing the programs that they, and a conflicted public, know the nation needs.
Posted in15th Anniversary
1991: How We Found — and Lost — a Majority
Stanley B. Greenberg’s Fall 1991 article, “From Crisis to Working Majority,” was widely considered a key manifesto for the 1992 Clinton campaign. Bob Woodward reported that Bill Clinton said he had read it three times. On the eve of Bill Clinton’s announced candidacy for president, I reviewed a wave of provocative books about the “deepening […]