The Democratic Tea Party They Said Wasn’t Possible Is Here
7/18/19
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from Commentary,
4/9/19:
Democrats aren’t immune from the forces of history.
he notion that America’s center-left party was simply too organizationally competent, pragmatic, and adaptable to engage in ideologically fratricidal politics emerged alongside the Tea Party’s inception in 2009 and 2010. It was essential to the theory of “asymmetric polarization,” postulated by Brookings Institution scholar Thomas Mann and American Enterprise Institute’s Norm Ornstein. The theory posited that conservatives had radicalized in the early part of this decade while their liberal counterparts had not, owing not to the Democratic Party’s command of the White House but some preternatural Democratic ability to resist the temptations of radicalism.
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