Light Blue: How center-left moderates can build an enduring Democratic majority - Softcover

Cieslewicz, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798433335943

Verlag: Independently published, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The death of the Republican Party as we knew it has left the Democrats as the primary institution charged with saving liberal American democracy. No pressure there. But they can't succeed on their current course. The party, now dominated by hard-left "progressives", has a brand that, in too much of America, is just toxic.

Not long ago, Democrats thought they could rely on a demographic tsunami of younger and more diverse voters to carry them to majorities. But Hispanic voters are trending Republican and even Black men have started to migrate away from Democrats. Meanwhile, in small town and rural America the party is all but gone. Rebuilding the party outside of major metros and college towns is crucial because, while big margins in cities can sometimes help them win statewide elections, Democrats cannot gain majorities in Legislatures without being able to win at least some out-state districts. And Legislatures, in turn, redraw Congressional maps every decade. The party that dominates state Legislatures will build in an advantage for themselves in Congressional maps.

What's to be done? Dave Cieslewicz, the former Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin -- among the most liberal college towns anywhere -- urges his party to move back to the center. He argues that the party needs to speak in plain language about issues that matter most to Americans in the moment, and it needs to clearly tie its policy prescriptions to traditional American values. Among his pieces of advice for Democratic candidates: "If you hear it on NPR, don't say it."

In addition to serving as mayor for eight years, Cieslewicz founded the Mayors Innovation Project, an urban policy think tank, and he taught at the University of Wisconsin as an adjunct professor in Urban and Regional Planning and Political Science. For over a decade, he has been a columnist for Isthmus, Madison's alt-weekly, and during the pandemic he started his own website, Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos, to promote center-left strategies. His writing has earned awards from the Milwaukee Press Club for both reporting and commentary. He grew up in the Milwaukee industrial suburb of West Allis, Wisconsin. Today he and his wife Dianne and their dog Maple split their time between Madison and a cabin near Watersmeet, Michigan.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798433335943
• Einband: Broché
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338
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