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  • Published: 23 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809942
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

Political Suicide

The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party




Ted Rall's latest is a no-holds-barred look at the civil war raging within the Democratic Party in the graphic style of his national bestseller, Bernie.

Ted Rall's latest is a no-holds-barred look at the civil war raging within the Democratic Party in the graphic style of his national bestseller, Bernie.

There's a split in the Democratic Party. Progressives are surging with ideas and candidates like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 72 percent of Democratic voters are progressives. But centrists like Tom Perez and the Clintons still run the DNC party apparatus--and they don't want to compromise. Intraparty warfare exploded into the open in 2016. It's even bigger now.
     The struggle goes back decades, to the New Left and the election of Richard Nixon over George McGovern. It continued with the Democratic establishment's quashing of insurgent progressives like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader and Howard Dean. The vast scale of the DNC's secret conspiracy to stop Bernie Sanders in 2016 nomination came out courtesy of WikiLeaks.
     Will Democrats again become the party of the working person? Or will the corporatists win and continue their domination of electoral politics? Ted Rall gets to the bottom of the story neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want you to know: how the civil war in the Democratic Party poses an existential threat to the two-party system.

  • Published: 23 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809942
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

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Praise for Political Suicide

"An illuminating, clear-headed, straight-shooting argument on why American voters should support and elect Senator Bernie Sanders to president." --Publishers Weekly on Bernie
"This book shows the proper medium for a Donald Trump biography: Cartoon!" --Bruce Handy, VanityFair.com on Trump
"A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power."--Noam Chomsky on Snowden