WTH are Democrats Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Midterms? Ruy Teixeira on How MAGA is Masking the Democrats' Failures with Women, Minorities and the Working Class

The 2022 midterms came as a shock to Ds and Rs alike: the
Democrats did better than expected, and the Republicans did
worse. Much worse. Last week, covered the reasons behind the Red
Fail. But what about Democrats? The left ran a shrewd, if
cynical, anti-MAGA campaign, and capitalized on weak GOP
candidates. But it the aftermath, President Biden and his party
seem to be learning the wrong lessons. Despite losing ground with
women and minorities, the Democrats’ short-term vindication has
encouraged Biden to announce he would make no changes. None at
all. What he and his party don’t get is that the Democrats didn’t
win, the Republicans lost.


Our guest this week is Ruy Teixeira. Teixeria is a fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on the
transformation of party coalitions and future of American
electoral politics. He is the co-editor of the Substack The
Liberal Patriot, and he previously was a scholar at the Center
for American Progress and a visiting fellow at the Brookings
Institution.


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