Henry Tonks, Postdoctoral Fellow at Kenyon College's Center for the Study of American Democracy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Henry discuss why the post-2024 election Trump realignment failed to materialize, why opposition to the Trump presidency wins elections, but isn't a sufficient governing strategy, the fall of liberal ideology since the Reagan presidency, the lessons of the Democratic Party and American liberalism's wilderness years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and why the future of the liberal project looks more like "fusion" rather than "faction."
American Affairs | Henry Tonks - The Rise and Fall of the New Liberals: How the Democrats Lost Their Majority: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-new-liberals-how-the-democrats-lost-their-majority/
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