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Demographic Delusions
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 65, Number 1, Winter 2018
- pp. 123-125
- 10.1353/dss.2018.0005
- Review
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ABSTRACT:
In this age of Trump-induced anxiety, Teixeira argues that basic demographics suggest an alternative political outcome is possible. But asking citizens to continue accepting the status quo—stagnant incomes, persistent inequality, rising healthcare costs, and a growing educational divide—in the hope that some long-awaited progressive coalition will finally emerge is a recipe for ongoing electoral defeat. Leftists have reason to be optimistic only because a growing number of progressives are rediscovering the value of good old-fashioned politics and grassroots mobilization.
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