Recommended: Fault Lines Loom for "Dominant" Dem Majority.

Sean Trende has a provocative piece on RealClear Politics today, Fault Lines Loom for "Dominant" Dem Majority. He argues that the current dominate Democratic coalition contains serious internal contradictions which will sooner or later - probably sooner - pull it apart.

....Democrats are increasingly confronted with either raising taxes on their suburban constituents or cutting spending on their downscale voters to deal with debt; either move will likely enrage the affected group.

It comes back to the old saying, "there is no free lunch".  Democrats want to offer a wide range of expensive government services to the less affluent (one part of their coalition), but the only way to do that is to tax more heavily the liberal middle class (the other part of their coalition).

This is an interesting piece.