In this country, Democratic reforms adopted after the 1968 convention — an event marked by police violence against antiwar demonstrators — produced a radical shift in power within the Democratic Party. The Piketty report is a significant contribution to the growing collection of studies analyzing the inability of democratic forces to adequately counter inequality. But why have these people found a home in the Republican Party, not in the Democratic Party? Yet it’s impossible to deny that the realignment of the parties around race created the opening for the GOP to gain the support of white voters — especially downscale white voters — by exploiting resentment of racial and ethnic minorities. There is “an ongoing battle,” Baker continued,in the Democratic Party as well as in most of the left parties across Europe.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2018 10:41 UTC