Republican Party

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: A Prescription or a Prophecy?
The Emerging Democratic Majority is a book of two halves; a description of electoral trends that Judis and Teixeira argue favor the Democrats and a prescription for Democrats to adopt…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: From McConnell to Trump
Sean Trende speculated that a Republican Party advancing the alternate approach “would have to be more ‘America first’ on trade, immigration and foreign policy; less pro–Wall Street and big business…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: Teixeira Exiled
The Democratic response to the Trump administration accelerated the burial of progressive centrism. The professional class hardened in its Democratic alignment as “wokeness”—the mix of Robin DiAngelo- and Ibram X.
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

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The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: Conclusion
"The Emerging Democratic Majority," while not prophetic, was informative in projecting who would constitute Barack Obama’s presidential majorities. But its prescription, a “progressive centrism” focused on left-populist economic and welfare…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Left’s Narrative on “Dark Money” Collapses
In a tremendous blow to the narrative that conservative “dark money” dominates politics, reporters Ken Vogel and Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times explored the world of “dark money”…
by Parker Thayer on February 10, 2022

Featured Items
Featured Video: Democrats Are the Party of Big Business
Historically, Republicans have had the reputation as the party of big business. And today, Democrats continue to champion themselves as the party of the common man, fighting against entrenched Republican…
by CRC Staff on March 31, 2021

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #155: Radical Republicans, Corporate Democrats?
Continuing what has become something of a series on how American big business, big labor, and other “bigs” have gotten aggressively more aligned with progressive liberalism, today we turn to…
by Shane Devine, Michael Watson on February 8, 2021

Organization Trends
Party Realignment: Radical Republicans, Corporate Democrats?
Historically, white-collar business professionals were usually Republican, and the blue-collar working classes were Democrats. But this has been gradually changing… Working folks who used to be the staunchest Democrats voted…
by Shane Devine on February 1, 2021

Blog
Elections have consequences: Republicans could control U.S. House until 2022
There’s an interesting piece from E.D. Kain in the Washington Examiner on how the election results at the state level may give the GOP a significant edge for years…
by Matthew Vadum on November 5, 2010