Lind’s strategy for Democrats

Interesting analysis from Michael Lind:

Can the Democratic Party regain the kind of majority enjoyed by the New Deal Democrats between the 1930s and the 1960s? Not an occasional bare majority, but the kind of solid, enduring majority that permits the passage of major legislation?

The answer is yes–but only if the Democratic Party ceases to be defined by social liberalism. As a social liberal party with economic liberal and economic conservative wings, the Democrats are doomed to perpetual minority status. As an economic liberal party with social conservative and social liberal wings, the Democrats might have a chance–but only if the social conservative Democrats outnumber the social liberal Democrats in the Democratic Party itself.

This is the conclusion Lind comes to after crunching the numbers on where the American electorate is. Basically, he says, the American people are center-right on social & cultural issues and center-left on economic issues.

Read the rest here.