Will Democrats Become a Permanent Minority?

Eric Medlin
4 min readAug 25, 2021

The party is not doomed until 2036.

Steve Kornacki in front of an Arizona election map in 2020. Source: BU

The Democratic Party has once again become that fractured, jumbled mess that commentators from Will Rogers (born 1879) to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) have criticized. There is a strong chance that nine moderate Democrats will sink the party’s combined agenda of traditional and human infrastructure spending. Nancy Pelosi is now trying to corral…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites