Why the Center Holds
Within the Democratic Party, institutions created during the New Deal and civil rights era have acted as barriers to insurgents on both the right and left.
Cedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published several books including Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule and The Origins of Right to Work. He is finishing a new book on the struggle for interracial labor solidarity.
Within the Democratic Party, institutions created during the New Deal and civil rights era have acted as barriers to insurgents on both the right and left.