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Political Conservativism? Total Frat Move

In chapters 5 and 6 of Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos discuss the years of Reagan’s presidency and the subsequent slow-release revolution. They argue that it was Reagan’s appeal to the Pro-Life movement, the Christian right, and the American south that firmly re-aligned political conservatives with the Republican party. Reagan ran on a platform of…

The Republican Party “Doesn’t Care about Black People”

In Chapters Three and Four of Deeply Divided, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos explore the Civil Rights Movement along with other events of the 1960s that created a shift in political perspectives and led to the 1970s and present-day politics. The powerful social organizations of the sixties, from SCLC to the MFDP, and their monumental…

Lets Relate This To Donald Trump

In Chapters 3 and 4 of Deeply Divided, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos pinpoint the origin of contemporary political divide. Plainly said, the civil rights movement of the 60’s is where it all starts. Parties were forced to realign themselves based on this issue, shaping their reputation and viewpoints. Policy points of democrat LBJ…

Polarized Parties in a Moderate America

In chapters three and four in the book Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos discuss the important periods of the 1960s and 1970s. They highlight the way reforms marginalized party elites and gave movement activists an opportunity to impact who was nominated as a presidential candidate….

Super PAC, Super Corrupt

In chapters 3 and 4 of Deeply Divided, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos identify the historical roots of the Democratic and Republican parties as we know them today. According to them, the Democratic Party became more liberal due to the Civil Rights Movement and its effect of realigning the party with minorities, especially beginning during…

Bipartisan Delusions

The idea of politics in our nation’s capital as frayed beyond repair is a common one these days. It makes for good fodder among the politically-attuned and indifferent alike. And if presented well it can make for an impassioned, if circuitous, discussion among the talking heads that populate Sunday morning political shows. Essentially, it is…

The Nostalgic Bipartisan Days

Through the first two chapters of Deeply Divided, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos begin to lay the foundation of Postwar American politics. Touching on several issues from bipartisanship to income equality, McAdam and Kloos set out to explain how American politics got to where they are today. From following the federal government the past years,…

9/11 really isn’t another Pearl Harbor

In the wake of September 11th, some compared it to the Japanese surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941. While both certainly struck a blow to the U.S. and shocked the public, the aftermath of these events could not be more different. After Pearl Harbor, America entered the Second World War,…

Amber Alert: Moderate Thinkers

Gone are the days of the Median Voter Theorem and of persnickety appeals to the moderate voter. In Deeply Divided , McAdam and Kloos examine the American trend in which income inequality and political partisanship rise and fall together. More specifically, they strive to fill in gaps of research in order to understand how in…

What party will you attend?

Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America by Doug Mcadam and Karina Kloos explores American politics through the interaction between race, region and movement. The book begins with an analysis of the extreme inequality and “unprecedented” partisan polarization currently plaguing the US and their surprising correlation. In Chapter Two, Mcadam and Kloos…