The 2020 Election: On the Possibility of Political Realignment
5 min readJun 7, 2019
The term “political realignment” is perhaps thrown around too liberally (no pun intended) by commentators always looking to emphasize the historic nature of whatever election just happened. Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 was considered by many to be a realigning election, as he not only put together a new coalition of young people, African Americans, college educated liberals, etc…