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"""John Judis and Ruy Teixeira are the two preeminent scholars of liberalism and the Democratic Party. Over the past several decades, they have chronicled the vicissitudes of the American left with unmatched skill and insight. Where Have All the Democrats Gone? captures the fragile state of the party at a critical moment and joins the ranks of Theodore White's The Making of the American President 1960 and Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes. A deeply informed and beautifully written work of reportage and scholarship, this volume is brilliant, indispensable and simply the best analysis in decades of America's urgent, fraught politics."" --Thomas Edsall, columnist at The New York Times ""If like me you are terrified by the prospect of a second Trump presidency, you need to ask yourself just how, despite seemingly favorable demographics, the Democratic Party became so vulnerable to populist attacks. In Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's brilliant and levelheaded intervention into the fraught debate around identity politics and polarization, two of our best political minds make a clear and persuasive case for how and why Democrats must win back the trust and partnership of the working class. It's a What's the Matter with Kansas? for the contemporary left and just in the nick of time."" --Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White ""Over the last half century, Democrats went from being the unified party of working people to a fractured collection of interest groups. With an unparalleled understanding of political history and practice, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira tell us how and why identity politics trumped class, and what the Democratic Party must do to regain its strength--and its soul."" --Rana Foroohar, columnist at the Financial Times ""Twenty years ago, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira brought optimism to a gloomy Democratic Party by writing The Emerging Democratic Majority. Now they are back with a stern warning to the party they love: If you don't want to return to minority status, stop ignoring the working-class voters who have always been the heart of the party."" --Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at The New Yorker ""Teixeira and Judis are here to give some tough love to Democrats on what it takes to win in today's tribalized landscape. The Trumpified Republican party poses an active threat to democracy, so Democrats--for now--are the last best hope for fixing our broken politics. But to do that, the authors argue, they'll need to abandon their addiction to identity politics, and instead lean into pragmatic problem-solving. Prescient and timely, this is a must-read for anyone who is serious about building a durable pro-democracy majority."" --Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark ""John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, induced a misplaced confidence in those influenced by a one-sentence summary of its contents. The detailed account provided in their new book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, shows how complacency about the inevitable victory that demographic change would deliver to a party at once committed to the preferred economic policy of Wall Street and Silicon Valley and to increasingly esoteric cultural fantasia (concerning race and gender) undid the ruling coalition that was theirs to lose in the early 21st century. This is a must-read for those seeking to understand the last two decades and what those decades portend for the future."" --Wesley Yang, author of The Souls of Yellow Folk"

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John B. Judis serves as editor at large at Talking Points Memo. Previously, Judis worked as a senior writer at the National Journal and a senior editor at The New Republic. His books include The Emerging Democratic Majority, which he cowrote with Ruy Teixeira, as well as The Populist Explosion, The Folly of Empire, and more. Judis received his BA and MA degrees in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, politics editor of the Liberal Patriot newsletter and a contributing columnist at the Washington Post. He is the coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority and America's Forgotten Majority, as well as the author of The Optimistic Left, among other titles. Teixeira holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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