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Revitalization and Decay: Looking Toward the Third Century of American Electoral Politics

AS THE CALENDAR POINTS toward the bicentennial of American independence, the United States finds itself in the grip of a pervasive and remarkably long-lived political crisis. Signs of this crisis are everywhere to be seen. They have appeared in a variety of forms: in George Wallace's campaigns, in and out of the Democratic party, since the spring of 1964; in Barry Goldwater's nomination by the Republicans that year; in the assassinations, riots and protest demonstrations of 1967-1972; in the failure of the Democratic conventions of 1968 and 1972 to achieve either legitimacy or consensus; in Richard Nixon's rise from the politically dead in 1968, and in his richly deserved reinterment in 1974; and in much else besides. So far from being exhaustive, such a list of pathological symptoms could be extended almost indefinitely. They add up to a syndrome; and it seems very likely that 1976 will make its own contributions to that list. Conventional wisdom, such as it now exists, stresses the importance of two chief proximate causes of this state of affairs: the Vietnam disaster in foreign policy and the mix of poverty and civilrights programs in the domestic arena. One implication of this argument is that, with Vietnam now in the past and with a general discrediting in public and elite opinion of the kind of experiment in positive federal action associated with the "Great Society," things