Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“Over thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips, remarked that ‘the Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for the capillaries.’ This serious disparity in political energy levels is rarely taken into account to explain election turnouts. The voluntary enfeebling of the Democratic Party started long ago. In 1970, writing in Harper’s Magazine, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, wrote an article ‘Who Needs Democrats? And What It Takes to be Needed?’ He argued that if the Democratic Party does not take on the corporate and political establishment, it has no purpose at all. ” (11/29/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democrats-losing-republicans