A President and a party committed to family values, the protection of workers and consumers, strictly limited and strictly legal immigration, fair trade and fair tax, constitutional checks and balances, universal health care, national security, Social Security, energy independence, environmental responsibility, Second Amendment rights and responsibilities, Civil Rights, America as an English-speaking country, and foreign policy realism.
The party that could have been if the Catholic Encyclicists in the North, Share Our Wealth in the South, and the Farmer-Labor Party in the West had ever succeeded in combining their efforts; since it was a very old-school Southern white Democrat who in fact brought about Civil Rights as President, backed by an all-white Congress, then references to racism among the Southern Agrarians and others in that coalition are either immaterial or simply inaccurate.
The Civil Rights Movement would have been a child of this party; let it now be one of this party's parents. Do not the black churches believe in family values? Are not African-Americans among the worst losers from the absence of strictly limited and strictly legal immigration, and of an absolute commitment to America as an English-speaking country? Do not Civil Rights include Second Amendment rights?
The Republicans cannot now be this party. It is up to Barack Obama, beginning with his choice of running mate, to demonstrate that the Democrats can be. If he does not, then it will be time for a wholesale realignment, as so tragically failed to happen in 1936.
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