From the Archives: My Conversation With Caroline Fredrickson About Her New Book "The Democracy Fix."

The following is an edited transcript of a conversation between Caroline Fredrickson, President of the American Constitution Society and Frank Housh, Esq., ACS Chairman of the WNY Lawyers Group and a member of National Book Critics Circle, about Ms. Fredrickson’s new book, The Democracy Fix. Ms. Fredrickson will be speaking about her book at upcoming ACS chapter events in Northeast Ohio, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

HOUSH: Your book is extraordinarily ambitious in that it enumerates the history of what is effectively the right-wing compromise, or takeover, of key democratic institutions -- and then offers a fix. You describe a decades-long somnambulance by the left while the right co-opted institutions to roll back the New Deal and Civil Rights. I think that's a fair summary of what you've described in your book. You also talked about how you had a role with the Clinton Administration and had a long history in on Capitol Hill from that perspective. How was the left lulled to sleep? How di…