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This time, it’s education replacing income as the key determinant of voting behavior.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
technical sophistication,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C
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clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Democrats now hold an unprecedented advantage in America’s most affluent and educated districts, giving them a growing edge in mainstream media presence, academic credibility, and personal dollar contributions. Republicans try to make up this gap through alternative media, business PAC money, and a deeper ground game run by local volunteers.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
politics but Federal
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
of the American population, their influence has become enormous; again far disproportionate to their size.
James Davison Hunter • To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
Robert D. Putnam.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Politically mixed or “purple” communities are therefore getting scarcer. More and more regions are swinging all blue or all red.