The Emerging Populist Majority

Troy M. Olson, Gavin M. Wax

• Publisher: Bombardier Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798888452257
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: 21st Century History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Emerging Populist Majority analyzes America's political future and changing coalitions through long-term and emerging trends across demography, geography, and ideology. America is on a new rendezvous with destiny…at least that's what co-authors Troy M. Olson and Gavin M. Wax explore in The Emerging Populist Majority. With confounding consensus narratives in our media and culture, and building on Donald Trump's historical upset in the 2016 presidential election, Olson and Wax make the case that the populist revolt remaking American politics is merely at the midfield point. Furthermore, they argue that this revolt is poised to continue long-term, and more recent trends predict that populism will become the major political movement in America for the remainder of the twenty-first century.Building on the late 1960s tradition when Kevin P. Phillips accurately predicted the next generation of Republican dominance at the presidential level, and considering the forecasted coalition of the ascendent that found its way through the electoral process in the 2006 midterm wave and election of Barack Obama in 2008, The Emerging Populist Majority exists both in that tradition and sets itself apart. Casting doubt and scrutiny on realignments and the traditionally agreed-upon narrative about them, this book is an exploration of the elite corridors of American society.Leaving no stone unturned, this analytical dive into the past, present, and future of America's changing electorate and emerging coalitional makeup running through its two major parties has something for the politically obsessed across the divide, at home, and abroad.

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Raheem Kassam
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Our Last “Return to Normalcy”
• Chapter 2: Third Civic Order (1940 to Present)
• Chapter 3: War Generation Alignment (1952 to 1992)
• Chapter 4: Boomer Alignment (1992 to Present)
• Chapter 5: The Democratic Party in the Last Decade (2008 to 2020)
• Chapter 6: The Republican Party in the Last Decade (2008 to 2020)
• Chapter 7: The Democratic Party in the Next Decade (2021 to 2030)
• Chapter 8: The Republican Party in the Next Decade (2021 to 2030)
• Chapter 9: The Geography of the Emerging Populist Majority
• Chapter 10: The Demography of the Emerging Populist Majority
• Chapter 11: The Ideology of the Emerging Populist Majority
• Epilogue and Reaction to the 2022 Midterms
• Afterword by Steve Cortes
• Bibliography
• Endnotes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors