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The Working Families Party Goes National

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Is the two-party system doomed? Some progressive commentators think so.



Labor activist Les Leopold argues in his recent book, The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own, that “Working people have been abandoning the Democratic Party as the party has been abandoning them.” He calls for “a new party of the working class” to field working-class candidates. Lee Drutman of New America makes similar arguments about a fatally damaged Democratic brand in his 2020 book, Breaking the

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