https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/09/03/its-not-your-fathers-democratic-party-how-the-party-has-changed-for-the-worse-since-clintons-era/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:59:14 -0400<![CDATA[On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, one thing is clear: it’s not your father’s Democratic Party any longer. Readers of Jay Cost’s important new book, Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic, already know this. Cost gives us the analysis that shows the slow but unmistakable transformation of the once broad-based political party to a machine operation controlled by the new elites and the public sector unions, beholden not to the American public but to the narrow interests that dominate its machinery. As the publisher’s description of the book says:]]>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:52:19 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2012/09/03/its-not-your-fathers-democratic-party-how-the-party-has-changed-for-the-worse-since-clintons-era-n184191