Politics / November 11, 2024 The party chased former Republicans and rich donors, while alienating the working-class majority. Ad Policy Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a primary night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.(Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has quickly emerged as the most important … Read more
The Democratic Party is soul-searching in the wake of last week’s stunning setbacks both in the presidential election and down-ballot races. A wave of incriminations and finger pointing is well underway, and more earnest autopsies of what went wrong and how to make corrections will soon commence. Concurrent with those efforts are talks about who … Read more
Politics / November 7, 2024 The lesson from 2024 is clear: If voters don’t see you as an agent of transformational change, they will turn to someone like Donald Trump. Ad Policy President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend an event on gun violence in the East Room of the White House in … Read more
Much ink has been spilled about the coming political realignment: the economic and demographic shifts that are pushing traditionally Democratic voters—people of color, the working class—into the arms of Republicans, while the liberal base is increasingly populated by suburbanites and college-educated voters. The extent to which the party system is undergoing a political realignment is … Read more