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   Democratic Party who have been leery for quite a while of the sort of   
   intersectionality that's taken over the party. Everything has to be   
   decolonized, everything has to be thought of in terms of equity. I think   
   that has really, really annoyed a lot of people who were formally tolerant   
   of a lot of nonsense in other spheres. And it'll be interesting to see the   
   extent to which that might contribute to increasing the opposition and   
   pushback within and around the party towards some of the crazier elements   
   of the progressive left that has melded all these issues together: Free   
   Palestine, climate justice, getting rid of mass incarceration,   
   decriminalizing crime, the border. They're all together, right?   
      
   TIME: It's intersectional, isn't it?   
      
   Teixeira: The extent this might contribute to trying to separate   
   themselves from the intersectional left and the kind of inexcusable   
   nuttiness that would lead people to be soft on the Oct. 7th massacre. It   
   might make a constructive contribution.   
      
   TIME: So you ask where the Democrats have gone in the title of the book.   
   Where do Democrats go from here?   
      
   Judis: You have to talk about where American politics goes from here. The   
   two parties are conjoined to each other in a very strange way. Both   
   parties have these extreme wings that are not palatable to the American   
   public. That can't win a majority. The party that wins is the party that   
   makes the other party's extremes more salient. So in 2022, Democrats win   
   in areas where the voters see the Republicans as the party of “Stop the   
   Steal” and prohibit abortion. They lose where voters see Democrats as the   
   party of “Defund the Police,” let anybody in the country who wants to come   
   in. So really what's happened is that we have this kind of culture war   
   situation between the two parties.   
      
   Teixeira: Both parties would benefit from moving to the center on a lot of   
   these hot-button issues, but I don't think the impetus is there for at the   
   current time, and I don't expect it to manifest itself in 2024. We have   
   this unstable equilibrium between the parties.   
      
   TIME: This has been great. Thank you for your time.   
      
      
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   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
   Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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