The Next Realignment

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By Frank J. DiStefano ’95

Published April 25, 2019

The current state of American politics can seem chaotic and unprecedented. While Frank DiStefano ’95 agrees that things are in turmoil, he uses The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties are Crumbling and What Happens Next (Prometheus) to argue that this conflict is ultimately leading to the realignment of political parties, something that America has gone through several times in its history.

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