In his article for Politico on “Class Warfare,” Jonathan Martin quotes PPI president Will Marshall:
Will Marshall, head of the centrist Democratic think tank Progressive Policy Institute, said the GOP would suffer until it made tough decisions on policy in much the same way Democrats did in the 1980s.
“Republicans are at the first stage of the ‘politics of evasion,’ where you pin defeats on everything but your outlook and agenda,” said Marshall, referencing the title of the searing self-indictment penned by a pair of Democratic moderates the year after the party’s third consecutive White House loss in 1988. “It’s always the candidate, the media, the tactics or our people weren’t excited.”
Ayres also found similarities between the GOP’s class problems now and Democrats’ class problems a generation ago.
Read the rest of Martin’s piece here.
