Book contents
- Learning from Loss
- Learning from Loss
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 When the Fools Were Right
- Chapter 2 What We Know About Identity, Ideology, and Electability, and What We Don’t
- Chapter 3 Interpreting Loss
- Chapter 4 When Parties Try to Fix Themselves
- Chapter 5 The Persistence of Faction
- Chapter 6 How Narratives Change Voters
- Chapter 7 The Invisible Primary Becomes Visible
- Index
Chapter 4 - When Parties Try to Fix Themselves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2020
Book contents
- Learning from Loss
- Learning from Loss
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 When the Fools Were Right
- Chapter 2 What We Know About Identity, Ideology, and Electability, and What We Don’t
- Chapter 3 Interpreting Loss
- Chapter 4 When Parties Try to Fix Themselves
- Chapter 5 The Persistence of Faction
- Chapter 6 How Narratives Change Voters
- Chapter 7 The Invisible Primary Becomes Visible
- Index
Summary
Mark Twain is reputed to have said that “history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Bear with me for a moment while I offer an example of a party that went through something like what Democrats went through in the wake of 2016. The example itself actually predates Twain, but its experiences bear a lot of similarities to recent political developments in the United States, and are instructive about what parties can and can’t do in response to a surprise electoral loss.
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- Learning from LossThe Democrats, 2016–2020, pp. 117 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020