Democrats have spent the six months since President Donald Trump’s victory scrambling for a way to tap into the populist energy that animated his campaign.
They still don’t agree on where to start.
Many election postmortems diagnosed the Democratic Party with a case of elitism, which proved fatal to its image among working-class voters. The party’s language, policy positions, institutional allies, and media strategy all reflected the preferences of white college graduates. Trump, meanwhile, harnessed a frustration with the establishment that solidified the sweeping electoral realignment he began with his first campaign in 2016.
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“Democrats are going through an ideological identity struggle that can’t be reconciled,” Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, told the Washington Examiner. “Their only unity is
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