During his primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, lived up to the grand Democratic tradition of favoring the underdog at the expense of the rich. …
But Sanders spoke to the Democratic Party of 2016, not the Democratic Party of the Great Depression. …
In the 2016 election, the economic elite was essentially half Democratic, according to exit polls: Those in the top 10 percent of the income distribution voted 47 percent for Clinton and 46 percent for Trump. Half the voters Sanders would hit hardest are members of the party from which he sought the nomination.
The problem for the Democratic Party is that “them” has become “us.” CONT.
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times