"Far-left academics are suggesting the “endangered state of American liberal democracy” under President Donald Trump will require the Democratic Party to defy political norms and pursue “emergency steps” in order to create a permanent progressive majority and “thoroughly disempower” anyone opposed to their agenda.“Democrats should plan to treat political norms, when and if they’re in charge of a unified government, the way Trump and the Republicans do,” declared Rob Goodman, a political theorist at McGill University, writing for Politico.
“They should be readying a program of systematic norm-breaking for partisan advantage—but only if they are willing and able to follow it through to its conclusion.”
Specifically, Goodman cities a new book by political scientist David Faris, It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, as a framework for the type of “systematic norm-breaking” he is advocating for the Democratic Party to undertake.
...Such a radical power grab by the Democratic Party would “require party leaders to pursue policy changes that will be ridiculed by their opponents as outrageous affronts to democratic decency and received by their own voters with puzzlement or even shock.”...
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