The Shattering of the Democratic Coalition

Ruy Teixeira: “The Democratic coalition today is not fit for purpose. It cannot beat Republicans consistently in enough areas of the country to achieve dominance and implement its agenda at scale. The Democratic Party may be the party of blue America, especially deep blue metro America, but its bid to be the party of the ordinary American, the common man and woman, is falling short.”

“There is a simple—and painful—reason for this. The Democrats really are no longer the party of the common man and woman. The priorities and values that dominate the party today are instead those of educated, liberal America which only partially overlap—and sometimes not at all—with those of ordinary Americans.”

“This election has made this problem manifest in the starkest possible terms, as the Democratic coalition shattered into pieces.”

Playbook: “That’s the consensus in formation at the moment: That the Democratic Party is adrift, and its problems are beyond anything a visit with Joe Rogan in Austin or a blitz primary could have fixed.”