13 May, 2024

The Receding Democratic Majority

https://americancompass.org/the-receding-democratic-majority/

Democrats aren’t just losing white working-class voters, then. They’re losing working-class voters, pure and simple. That has undermined the Democrats’ chances of being the majority party. It has also deprived the country of a party that could champion the average American against what Bernie Sanders called “the billionaire class” and bridge the Great Divide between growing metro areas and small-town America.

Instead, with the Republicans steadily losing ground among college-educated voters and in states with high-tech metro centers, the two parties are locked in an unstable stalemate and in culture wars that evade the great issues that will determine the country’s future, while growing numbers of voters express disillusionment with both parties.