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The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo : How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party
The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party Author:Rick Perlstein A majority of Americans tell pollsters they want more government intervention to reduce the gap between high- and lower-income citizens, and less than one-third consider high taxes to be a problem. Yet conservative Republicanism currently controls the political discourse. Why? — Rick Perlstein probes this central paradox of today's political scen... more »e in his penetrating pamphlet. Perlstein explains how the Democrats' obsessive short-term focus on winning "swing voters," instead of cultivating loyal party-liners, has relegated Democrats to political stagnation. Perlstein offers a vigorous critique and far-reaching vision that is a thirty-year plan for Democratic victory.« less