It’s always a good sign for an out-of-power political party when its winning rival begins to believe it will be in power not just for the next term of office but virtually forever. It’s the kind of “permanent Republican majority” thinking that ultimately leads to overconfidence and failure.
So now we have Democratic strategist/talking head James Carville’s new book, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. An email this morning from Carville’s strategy group, Democracy Corps, explains:
Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That’s life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic majority that will last not four but forty years.
Democracy Corps promises that Carville will take on “the unpleasant but edifying task of autopsying the Republican Party” and will go on to explain “why Democrats are going to keep winning.” There’s no word on why he believes Democratic victories might stop after 2048.
