Recent analyses and commentaries have highlighted a significant shift in the Democratic Party's voter base, emphasizing the party's growing disconnect with the White and non-White working-class voters, a demographic it has historically claimed to represent. This shift is attributed to the party's focus over the past decade on appealing to knowledge-economy professionals, a strategy that is now being criticized for alienating its traditional base. Between 2012 and 2022, Democrats lost 25 points off their advantage among non-White working-class voters, a trend that has been exacerbated by the rise of cultural and religious issues and a perceived racial backlash, with Trump aggravating this problem. The party's reorientation towards issues and priorities that resonate more with knowledge-economy professionals than with the broader electorate is seen as a miscalculation, with experts suggesting that this demographic tends to hold more extreme ideological views compared to other voters. This strategic pivot is linked to the Democrats' loss of support among working-class voters. The situation calls for a reevaluation of the party's strategy and messaging to reconnect with its traditional voter base while addressing the concerns of a changing electorate.
Most Americans skew “operationally” left, favoring safety nets, etc. At the same time, most people tend to be more conservative on culture and symbolism. Knowledge-economy professionals, however, tend to be oriented in the exact opposite direction. https://t.co/676wUkWbMd
Over the past decade, the Democratic Party reoriented its messaging, candidates, platform, and priorities around knowledge-economy professionals. This has turned out to be a disastrous miscalculation, argues @Musa_alGharbi in his latest column: https://t.co/wuE6jJSSJM
“Professionals tend to be far more ideological and extreme than most other voters.” Read @Musa_alGharbi latest piece in COMPACT: https://t.co/IdhjZRibzV
"The core problem the party faces in trying to build a political coalition around knowledge-economy professionals is that, compared to most other voters, they—we—are really strange." https://t.co/676wUkWJBL
Beginning in the 2010s, the Democratic Party made a bet to go all in on knowledge-economy professionals. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But it's proving to be a disaster for the party. @Musa_alGharbi's brilliant latest column for COMPACT. https://t.co/676wUkWJBL
Today, for subscribers, it's Musa al-Gharbi @Musa_alGharbi on the current state of the Democrats https://t.co/6p2HWDJRbt "knowledge-economy professionals...are really strange."
Democrats losing the working class and minorities should prompt a lot of soul-searching. Their entire source of moral authority for generations was that they were the party of the little guy, of the marginalized minority, and that might soon be gone.
Democrats losing the working class and minorities should prompt a lot of soul-searching. Their entire source of moral authority for generations what that they were the party of the little guy, of the marginalized minority, and that might soon be gone.
How paradoxes of class will shape the 2024 election “The authors found that between 2012 and 2022, Democrats lost 25 points off their advantage among the non-White working class voters.” https://t.co/h1pzJ2Ed9S
How paradoxes of class will shape the election “Dems have been hemorrhaging White working-class voters for a long time bc of racial backlash and the rise of new cultural/religious issues. Trump has aggravated this problem for Dems; he didn’t create it.” https://t.co/h1pzJ2Ed9S