With the rise of Franklin Roosevelt, who won an appreciable share of the Black vote in the 1932 presidential election, Northern Democratic politicians began to pay real attention to the interests of Black Americans in cities across the region. The segregationists were weaker than they looked, and over the next 20 years the Democratic Party would cast them aside. There is no equivalent to northern Black voters in the Trumpified Republican Party. Instead, the further the Republican Party goes down the rabbit hole of “stop the steal” and other conspiracy theories, the more it loses voters who could serve to apply that pressure. In a normal, more majoritarian political system, this dynamic would eventually fix the issue of the MAGA Republican Party.

Source: Washington Post September 21, 2022 04:35 UTC