Douglas E. Schoen, who makes frequent appearances on Fox News and contributes regularly to a variety of publications, among them The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, is a member of an endangered species — a genuinely bipartisan and highly respected Democratic political consultant with some 40 years of valuable political experience. Among his clients have been Bill Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. He also admires Jimmy Carter as a humanitarian, and respects the accomplishments of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Nor, unlike many of his Democratic colleagues, increasingly infected by the various odd splinter sects growing within their party, does he lay the blame for the world's ills on the stolen election of 2016. As he pointed out in his last book, “America in the Age of Trump”(2017), the election of Donald Trump was no fluke or the result of collusion with comic-book agents of evil empires, but a genuine expression of outrage and a rejection of an increasingly out-of-touch political establishment.
Moreover, the forces that fed that victory will not be satisfied with a return to establishment politics as usual: “Trump's win represented the crescendo of half a decade or more of anti-establishment politics around the world, a raucous era of audacious terror attacks, global financial panics and economic recessions, technological disruptions, and political and institutional upheavals that have made the early twenty-first century as unpredictable and unstable as any recent era in at least a century.”
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