Deep Dive with Shawn C. Fettig

David Faris: Are Democrats Presiding Over Their Own Demise?

Jul 8, 2022

01:12:21

**This episode was recorded before the Supreme Court's final week of the 2022 term in which they overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs opinion, hobbled the ability of states to regulate guns in Bruen and severely limited the EPA's ability to tackle climate change in WV v. EPA**

In this episode, I talk to Dr. David Faris, the author of the book It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University, and contributing writer at The Week. We discuss the state of American democracy, how Democrats are disadvantaged in elections, some solutions that they could employ, why they don't, if it's too late to reverse course, and, ultimately, what this means for the country and how dire the next few years may become.

Mentioned:
Roe v. Wade
Marbury v. Madison
Citizens United v. FEC
It's Even Worse than it Looks - Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein
Strangers in their Own Land - Arlie Hochschild