

The Great Alignment
Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Author: Alan I. Abramowitz
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/18/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, American Government
Synopsis
Abramowitz shows how the partisan alignment arose out of the breakup of the old New Deal coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of "negative partisanship"; explains how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is by far a better predictor of support for Donald Trump than any other factor, including economic discontent.