One clear lesson from the elections of 2016 and 2018 is that President Trump and his fellow Republican candidates win where white voters are losing ground. Take a look at the 2018 congressional results in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania, states that provided the Electorate College votes crucial to Trump’s […] Read more »
Democrats need to understand how to talk to working class voters about immigration
Trump’s blatant and vicious appeal to pure prejudice regarding immigrants and immigration has led many progressives and Democrats to dismiss all of his white working class supporters as racists rather than understand their concerns and seek ways to regain their support.… While most Americans do not share Trump’s visceral loathing […] Read more »
Inside Democratic coalition, three groups show fissures
The last few years have revealed more than a few cracks in the Republican Party, but the Democrats have divisions lurking in their voter coalition as well and this week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows where some of those fault lines lie. To better understand the various segments of […] Read more »
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Leading and Following at the Same Time
The most active wing of the Democratic Party — the roughly 20 percent of the party’s electorate that votes in primaries and wields disproportionate influence over which issues get prioritized — has moved decisively to the left. With all the attention that is being paid to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, […] Read more »
Unlearning the Lessons of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy has been on The New York Times’ bestseller list for nearly two years, and deservedly, given how improbable the author’s odyssey has been. … The book is powerfully written and poignant—and for a year, I decided to give J.D. Vance a pass. It is important his […] Read more »
This is why Republicans and Democrats aren’t talking to each other in Washington
The geographic and demographic separation between the two political parties, and the two Americas, has reached a new peak in the House of Representatives. In the 116th Congress sworn in last week, Republicans and Democrats now control districts that represent virtual mirror images of each other across a wide range […] Read more »