WTH Should Democrats Learn from Trump's Victory? Ruy Teixeira Explains

President Donald Trump made gains among nearly every single
demographic group in his historic victory, particularly with
Hispanic and young voters. As the Democratic Party asks itself
how it lost to Trump – a man they cast as a dictatorial threat to
Democracy itself – it will have to look inward and realize it has
moved from being the “party of the kitchen table” to the “party
of the faculty lounge.” Working middle-class voters don’t
identify with a party that spends more time criticizing anyone
who disagrees with them as bigoted than working to make peoples’
lives better. Will Democratic leaders learn from their mistakes
and move to the center on cultural issues? Or will the Democrats
continue to pander to their progressive base?


Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the transformation of
party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics.
Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress. Teixeira is co-founder of the Liberal Patriot
Substack and co-author of the books The Emerging Democratic
Majority (Scribner, 2002) and Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes (Henry Holt &
Company, 2023).


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