Ruy Teixeira on the Democrats’ Cultural Cosmopolitanism Problem
About this episode
Ruy Teixeira discusses the challenges faced by the Democratic Party regarding cultural cosmopolitanism and demographic changes.
In 2002, political analyst and commentator Ruy Teixeira co-authored The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book, published near the zenith of the Bush presidency in the aftermath of 9/11, gave beleaguered Democrats cause for hope. Demographic change, Teixeira and co-author John Judis predicted, would soon create the political conditions for Democrats to forge an enduring political majority. When an emerging coalition of educated knowledge economy professionals, minorities, young people ...
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