I am puzzled by this passage from Ruy Teixeira’s piece The Emerging Democratic Majority Turns 10, in the Atlantic
If the Democrats can do all that, the emerging Democratic majority could be here to stay.
I’m no political scientist, but this makes no sense to me.
I’m the first to scoff at defining a political identity as a point on a one-dimensional spectrum (somewhere between left and right), but if you’re going to buy into it, the median voter theorem pushes the ‘left’ and ‘right’ parties to occupy a position just left and right of the median voter, respectively. While it may be true that the median voter is gradually drifting left, it seems intuitive for political parties to drift with them; there should not be a Democratic majority. If the Republican party instead choses to maintain its one-dimensional location and lose popular support, they will lose relevance. Not that I mind. But that doesn’t seem smart, or likely.