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Upper-class whites have alienated African Americans and Hispanics from the Democratic coalition. That’s why Democrats have gone berserk—they’re expecting to lose in 2022 and 2024.In the middle of their legislative orgy of socialistic giveaways and identity politics, Democrats might want to contemplate that their political priorities do not command the support of a majority of American voters. Moreover, the warnings on this front do not come from the right—they come from leftists themselves.When an editorial columnist from the bastion of liberalism, The New York Times, writes that “Democrats are worried—very worried—about the future of the Hispanic vote,” you know something’s...

Academics Get Reality Check Malcolm A. Kline, January 20, 2010 There is such a disconnect between what colleges and universities offer and what students need that even professors are starting to notice. “For over half a century, a college education has been seen as the conduit to white collar employment in this country,” Emily Schnee wrote in the December 2009 issue of Radical Teacher, “a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching.” “Yet the expansion of higher education has created greater expectations for upward mobility than the job market can bear (Anyon, 2005; Carnoy &...