Next Realignment
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Next Realignment

Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next

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Next Realignment

Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next

About this book

An astute analysis of today's political chaos showing that the current period of disruptive change is part of a recurring pattern in American politics. What's happening to American politics? Old political norms seem to be slipping away. Politics has progressively become angrier, new movements keep butting into the public square, and more and more of the unwritten rules that governed American politics for decades have fallen away. Naturally, many are anxious. Former congressional aide and presidential campaign veteran Frank J. DiStefano argues that this political turmoil feels disquietingly new only because most of us know so little about the history of American politics. In this book, he puts the present era in historical context, showing that America is facing its next realignment, a period of destruction and rebirth in which old political coalitions decay and new parties rise to replace them. DiStefano explains how the history of past realignments connects to contemporary politics. He examines clashes between Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans, the rise of Andrew Jackson, the traumatic collapse of the Whigs, the populist revolt of William Jennings Bryan, and the formation of our New Deal party system of today. He explores America's periodic explosions of moral crusading called great awakenings. He clarifies the real ideas and philosophical forces that make up our politics, from liberty and virtue to populism and progressivism, showing how their interaction is now remaking our parties into something new. Will this realignment be a quick renewal as we adapt our politics for a future with new problems, or do we face years of disruption, dangerous movements, and chaotic politics before we rebuild? This book shows that, with a knowledge of history, all of us can help shape the politics of the coming decades and restore our trust in the American Dream.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction: The Next Realignment Is Coming
  7. Chapter 2: America's First and Second Party Systems: The Early Republic's Love-Hate Affair with Two-Party Politics
  8. Chapter 3: America's Second and Third Party Systems: The Rise of Jackson and Collapse of the Whigs
  9. Chapter 4: America's Third and Fourth Party Systems: The Incredible Story of William Jennings Bryan
  10. Chapter 5: The Fifth Party System: How the New Deal Forged the Parties We Know
  11. Chapter 6: The Liberal and Conservative Myth
  12. Chapter 7: The American Ideal of Liberty
  13. Chapter 8: The Progressive Plan
  14. Chapter 9: The Virtue of a Republic
  15. Chapter 10: The Fury of Populism
  16. Chapter 11: The Choice: Collapse or Renewal
  17. Chapter 12: The Last Hurrah of the Fifth Party System
  18. Chapter 13: The Pendulum of Great Awakenings
  19. Chapter 14: The Fourth Great Awakening and the 1960s
  20. Chapter 15: The End of the Industrial Era and the American Century
  21. Chapter 16: America Unraveling: Obama and Trump—The Last Presidents of the Fifth Party System
  22. Chapter 17: What Happens Next
  23. Chapter 18: The Party of the American Dream
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Notes
  26. Index