The Realignment
The Realignment
The Realignment
599 | Henry Tonks: The Realignments Comes for the Democrats - Lessons from Liberalism's 1970s-1990s Wilderness Years
1 hour 26 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2026 at 8:00 am.
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Henry Tonks, Postdoctoral Fellow at Kenyon College's Center for the Study of American Democracy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Henry discuss why the post-2024 election Trump realignment failed to materialize, why opposition to the Trump presidency wins elections, but isn't a sufficient governing strategy, the fall of liberal ideology since the Reagan presidency, the lessons of the Democratic Party and American liberalism's wilderness years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and why the future of the liberal project looks more like "fusion" rather than "faction."