Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
John B. Judis is a co-author of “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?”The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes”, a new book released on November 7. John is an accomplished and prolific political author with a distinguished career, as detailed below.
He is also a friend of Dave Fogarty’s, the producer of most of the great programs that lead many of our Central Committee meetings. That’s how John joined us at our Central Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 14.
Brief book review from Amazon
A much-needed wake-up call for the Democrats, which reveals how the party has lost sight of its core principles and endangered its political future—from the authors of “one of the most influential political books of the 21st century” (The New York Times)
For decades, American politics has been plagued by a breakdown between the Democratic and Republican parties, in which victory has inevitably led to defeat and vice versa. Both parties have lost sight of the people at the center of the American electorate, leading to polarization and paralysis. In Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira reveal the tectonic changes shaping the country’s current political landscape that both pundits and political scientists have missed.
The Democratic Party, once the preserve of small towns as well as big cities and of the industrial working class and the newly immigrated, has abandoned and even actively alienated many of these voters. In this clarion call and essential argument for common sense and common ground, Judis and Teixeira reveal the transformation of American politics and provide a razor-sharp critique of where the Democrats have gone awry and how they can avoid political disaster in the days ahead.
Brief biography
John Judis serves as editor at large at Talking Points Memo. Previously, Judis worked as a senior writer at the National Journal and for many years as a senior editor at The New Republic. His books include The Politics of Our Time, The Populist Explosion, Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Folly of Empire, The Paradox of American Democracy, and William F. Buckley Jr: Patron Saint of the Conservatives. Judis received his BA and MA degrees in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
