Welcome to the new year — may the Democrats continue to prove that they learned nothing from the past one
/The Daily Chart: Why Democrats Lost for Dummies
The evolutionary biologist Colin Wright, who always regarded himself as a centrist-liberal, got a lot of heat for generating the top chart below of how the aggressive-progressive left (which is how they ought to be understood) went so far left that it pushed people like him to the right. The media/academic complex is wedded to the idea that it is the Republican Party that has become the “insurgent outlier” destabilizing American political life. But as the second chart below, produced by the Financial Times from survey data on immigration and affirmative action, shows, Wright had it right all along.
As bonus material, Hayward has included this photo, with self-explanatory caption, of the 81-year-old, 18-term Congressman from New Have Rosa DeLauro. Connecticut probably deserves to be punished for keeping her in office all these years, but is that fair to the rest of the country?
