Iowa and New Hampshire both take great pride in their status as the first states in the nation for selecting presidential nominees — Iowa through its caucuses and New Hampshire through its primary. That status is now in deep jeopardy in the Democratic Party, which moved a step closer this month to…
File-In this Feb. 4, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian walks past a sign for the Iowa Caucuses on a downtown skywalk, in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Democratic Party is agreeing to recount the results in about two dozen of almost 1,700 precinct caucuses as part of the ongoing process to resolve the weeks-long question of who won Iowa's tarnished presidential caucuses. Campaign officials for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Sen.
Even if these low factors contributed to or even dominated the decision, the new schedule could improve the Democratic Party’s nominating process. The hard Left’s stronghold on the party needs to be mitigated. Giving states such as South Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada more influence might heighten the chances that the party’s future presidential candidates are more representative of its voters and better ready to govern the nation as a whole.
One genius element of our constitutional system is that broad-based coalitions needed to get clear majorities tend to be more moderate politically. This moderation keeps our politics from veering into sectarian and extreme choices that threaten stability and liberty. So it should be in the Democratic Party.
However, that has not been the story. Especially over the last 15 years, the Democratic Party has less and less represented the middle of the Democratic coalition, much less America in general. Instead, their policies, rhetoric, and tactics have increasingly resembled one subset of that coalition, namely the most stridently progressive part that is largely white, upper-class, highly educated, and secular.
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