Analysis: With gay marriage legal, Democrats could lose big in the elections 2016

The Supreme Court ‘ s recent decision to make gay marriage legal across the country was a great victory for the liberals. In the next year ‘ s choice, however, the decision will hurt the Democrats. Success, after all, has its own set of challenges. As sociologists and Roberta Mayer Zald Ash said in his classic 1966 study of organizations of social movements, the two biggest challenges of a social movement have success and total failure (Social Forces 44 (March)). The ideal for the maintenance of a social movement, he writes, the situation would be a ” the end always [seems] to be closer to his goal without actually reach # X22 ;. …