302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump
The Realignment
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The Great Depression and the New Deal - What's Changed?
Theodore Roosevelt Republicans and then the FDR Democrats were able to win elections. What was the underlying political dynamic? Or what say like the era's dynamic that made it possible, he says. The tragedy of the 1960s is sort of a failure to build a new New Deal coalition with racial justice and economic equality into a lasting majority,. He writes. "If there's any hope for the future, I think it really is that folks like me, like us, will be able to make that type of change"
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