Ruy Teixeira

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

📖 “American Realignment,” by Patrick Ruffini. In The Atlantic, TLP friend Patrick Ruffini examines the evidence about whether or not there is a “realignment” going on in American politics. Ruffini believes there is:Today, machine politics are not held in high esteem. But they did have a way of finding overlooked voting blocs and putting them under protection.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

The release of the new data and report from Catalist has underscored the extent of Hispanic defection from the Democrats over the last two presidential cycles. We’ve seen massive drops in Democratic support from pretty much every subgroup of Hispanics, albeit with some variation: working-class Hispanics more than the college-educated, women (interestingly) more than men, younger Hispanics more than older ones, and urban residents more than those in the suburbs.

2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen |John Halpin

ūüó£ÔłŹ ‚ÄúPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt‚Äôs Memorial Day Address at Gettysburg,‚ÄĚ delivered on May 30, 1934. FDR commemorated Memorial Day (before it was changed by Congress to the last Monday in May) with a speech at the Gettysburg battlefields to remind Americans that our nation had survived the Civil War and would hopefully do the same with the Great Depression.

2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

Today I’m joined by Zaid Jilani, a fellow at New America, proprietor of the excellent Substack newsletter, The American Saga, and one of our sharpest observers of contemporary politics and culture. Zaid and I discuss the puzzle of Democrats’ obsessive use of twenty-dollar words like “oligarchy” and their stout refusal to speak language that normal Americans understand.

2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

Right after the 2024 election, I wrote the following based on the limited data that were available at the time:At one point in the initial rollout of Harris’s campaign, there was much happy (joyful?) talk of getting the band back together—the return of the mighty Obama coalition. The “rising American electorate” would have its revenge on Trump, the Republicans, and their retrograde supporters from declining demographics. That’s not exactly how it worked out.