Impeachment as National Renewal

Can non-democratic institutions be repurposed for democracy?

All of these authors recognize that these comparisons have limitations. The 1868 impeachment of Johnson failed to remove him from office -- just as, in all likelihood, Trump will remain president after his impeachment. But the deeper problem is that these celebrations of the political potential of impeachment elide its ...
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Impeachment as National Renewal

Triangulation is the Not-So-New Black

Party Coalitions, Racial Scapegoating and the Carceral State

Bill Clinton vilified African-Americans with his draconian crime bill while pushing for economic deregulation policies that he hoped would woo Republicans while also not upsetting the labor base of the Democratic Party too much. By the time Obama came around, African-Americans went from being vilified by the Democratic Party to ...
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