America’s Close Elections Signal A New Gilded Age

Donald Trump’s impressive 2024 victory, sweeping in a Republican Congress on his coattails, has prompted much talk about “realignment”—evidence of the arrival of a new, sustainable MAGA coalition in American politics, the triumph of working-class populism, or a widespread “turn to the right.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Many of the same commentators touted the 2020 results as a repudiation of Trumpism, a historic Democratic victory that not only brought states like Georgia and Arizona into the party’s column for the first time in a generation, but heralded a new electoral map in American politics.

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  • America’s Close Elections Signal a New Gilded Age
    Donald Trump's impressive 2024 victory, sweeping in a Republican Congress on his coattails, has prompted much talk about “realignment”—evidence of the arrival of a new, sustainable MAGA coalition in ...
    12/13/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
  • Close Elections Signal a New Gilded Age
    While some may think of this as new, Americans have certainly experienced this pattern of volatile and close elections before. During the Gilded Age, five consecutive elections between 1876 and 1892 ...
    12/12/2024 - 4:35 am | View Link
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