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Author: AdrianC ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: The Last Thing Democrats Need Is More Policy Plans
Date: 04/08/26 8:12 AM
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nytimes.com - Democrats politics policy

To counter Donald Trump’s appeal and save American democracy, Biden-era Democrats perceived their core political challenge to be reversing the defection of lower-income and lower-education voters from the party.

To address this challenge, Democrats pursued an ambitious economic policy agenda framed around moving beyond neoliberalism. Saving democracy from MAGA, the logic went, would require the forging of a post-neoliberal political economy newly open to bold welfare-state expansion, ambitious industrial policy and aggressive antitrust enforcement.

The stimulus spending of the American Rescue Plan, industrial policy initiatives of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, and administrative and regulatory activity across the executive branch added up to an agenda both notably left-leaning and decisively more focused on economic than cultural issues.

All that activity did essentially nothing to slow the defection of working-class voters from the party. In 2024, the party’s losses among lower-income and less-educated voters reached into nonwhite constituencies long considered sturdy Democratic loyalists and helped put Mr. Trump back in the White House.

Can anyone think of any other reason why Democrats lost in 2024? Anyone?
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