Ian Millhiser has an excellent piece on the threat to the future of the Democratic Party and hence to the historic achievements of progressivism, whether redistributive, welfarist, or regulatory.
And it refers the reader to the equally interesting piece by Matt Yglesias.
But I refer above to the role of union contributions enabled by mandatory, dues-paying membership in closed shops, a source that had already dried up quite a bit even before the current wave of right to work laws.
If the Republicans would follow Main Street rather than Wall Street and abandon their class war, becoming again the party of Eisenhower, Nixon, and even Rockefeller, would the entire white working class defect to them?
Not bloody likely though, given its prospects as considered by Millhiser and Yglesias.
[Aside:
Ezra Klein points out that many Democrats are in fact anti-abortion, though that view has been successfully suppressed among the party leadership.
He avoids a firestorm of hostile reaction, perhaps even threatening his career, by saying nothing about race.
/Aside.]
By the way, the idea that gerrymandering is forbidden by the First Amendment, which constrains only the federal government anyway, is an hallucination explicable only by the delusion that all political sins must be unconstitutional.
The text.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Politicians and lawyers lie about the constitution like clergy and theologians lie about the Bible.
It may or may not be true that voter ID laws disparately impact blacks.
It is almost certainly true their intention is to disparately impact Democrats.
And that they are actually a useful move against fraudulent voting.
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