This week at TPMCafe we’ll be hosting the first week of a month of great Book Clubs. Getting things started: Todd Gitlin’s The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals.
In the book, Gitlin offers a landscape view of the Bush years and argues that liberals need a “big tent” Democratic Party to counter the bulldozer GOP. Gitlin explains in his introductory post:
The Democrats have no choice but to remain a big-tent party. The Republicans made the mistake of turning themselves into a bulldozer party, but they couldnât bulldoze reality fast enough to keep from falling into a ditch. Now, if we donât blow it, thereâs a new center of gravity coming into American politicsânot a flabby center of splitting differences, not a blah-blah of bipartisanship, but a new story and replenished values.
Read Gitlin’s full post for more, and check in all week at the Book Club for an all-star discussion with Digby, Matt Yglesias, Heather Booth, Ed Kilgore, Mark Schmitt and our very own Josh Marshall.
