#482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland - The Realignment Pod

Stephanie Ternullo, author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics and Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss how focusing on local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right, why the New Deal coalition broke down, the debate over whether all politics is local or increasingly nationalized, and how these dynamics defined the 2016 and 2020 elections.

[GeorgeVajagich]

33:48 I love how both calm and direct Marshall is here, he's really good at hearing people out but then still being willing to critique them outout getting emotional which is really good for an interviewer to do.

[brianwidish]

Seriously? Her bubble in academia is showing. Let's have millions of poor people from around the world coming in to compete with your union employees. Then claim you can make the "the world has to buy American.
Nobody else has recovered from ww11. There are plenty of ways employees can organize. The "We can force up the consumer's price and the consumer's will just keep paying more than they have to. " Which is sad. Because the employees have so much additional knowledge value.

[cyberpunkalphamale]

Tom Schallar has a new book out on the same issue.

[archstanton]

The precarity the guest talks about among the upper / upper middle class is resonant of the stiffening elite competition that Turchin discussed.

[chickenfishhybrid]

Hold up, "never really a way to map moral concerns onto politics"? Not until the religious right in the 90s? Lol.

[calc]

The right/far right have been on the march in much of the developed world. This isn't a Democrat issue.