The Washington Post has a fascinating, relatively short podcast exploring larger questions about where Black voters fit within the two-party system through a story about Blexit’s arrival at Howard University’s homecoming weekend. Blexit, a conservative group currently tied to Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, seeks to persuade black voters to leave the Democratic Party, an argument that is not without appeal to many voters of color, who question what the party to which they have been so loyal has actually done for them.

The podcast resonated with me because it reconfirms my argument that for many voters of color, the shortfalls of American democracy today are substantive, not procedural–a point I made in a forthcoming chapter . It also reinforces points made by Lee Drutman and other

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