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    1. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 13 Nov 2020

      Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸 Retweeted David Byler

      How many Chuck Schumer Park Slope dance parties are required before people stop pretending that this is some kind of irresistible, bottom-up movement of the electorate, rather than the fruit of a highly conscious Democratic Party strategyhttps://twitter.com/databyler/status/1327338127921352704 …

      Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸 added,

      David BylerVerified account @databyler
      biden did not gain back blue collar portions of the midwest that obama won in 2012 educational polarization continues, despite Ds picking a candidate whose strategy was to win by slowing it down pic.twitter.com/MCK8Ywnkwe
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    2. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @karpmj

      The party’s conscious strategy was to assemble a coalition that makes it nearly impossible for it to control the Senate, and gives it a structural disadvantage at every level of government?

      8 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
    3. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @EricLevitz @karpmj

      Party def made strategic decisions to court college-educated professionals (tho part of the shift was driven almost automatically by deindustrialization imo; when manufacturing fled cities and FIRE rushed in, urban Dem machines adapted to their new constituents)...

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @EricLevitz @karpmj

      I think the party took its share of the white non-college vote under Obama for granted (while underestimating the fraction of his coalition they represented). But I don’t think they made a conscious choice to forfeit these voters, and did hope Biden could stem their losses...

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @EricLevitz @karpmj

      But education polarization exploded under Corbyn in Britain. I don’t think you can attribute that to conscious strategy. Urban-rural polarization has intensified cross-nationally. You can attribute that to center-left betrayals of labor from decades ago (I do, to an extent)...

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    6. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @EricLevitz @karpmj

      but in contemporary context, the pivot to the professional class is at least partly driven by necessity as right media gains hegemony, and trade unions lose influence, with non-college whites

      3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    7. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @EricLevitz

      clearly it's a broader issue, not *just* Chuck Schumer's malfeasance. As Piketty argues, center-left parties almost everywhere have responded to the same trends & made the same calculations. But few have been as self-conscious or enthusiastic about it as the Democrats

      2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    8. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @karpmj @EricLevitz

      and while the Corbyn experience shows the limits of party leadership, all by itself -- and suggests that education polarization is a problem for "The Left" too -- the Brexit-dominated election of 2019 is hardly a good test case for the failure of worker-first politics

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @karpmj @EricLevitz

      And in 2020, my feeling is that in large part due to Covid, the Biden-Harris campaign was much more like Hillary 2016 -- on character, competence, and expertise -- than whatever Scranton v. Park Avenue themes they may have tried to hit otherwise. Do you disagree?

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Nov 2020
      Replying to @karpmj @EricLevitz

      Don't Covid & Brexit both show that in a crisis center-left parties will go with college versus non-college part of their coalition? That's a real problem for left and not one I can see an easy solution to. On Brexit Corbyn yielded to center left but could he have defied?

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        2. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt‏ @samth 14 Nov 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @karpmj @EricLevitz

          Isn't part of the problem that both "reopening" and brexit are bad ideas, and also the ideas rejected by the more educated part of the coalition? The split isn't happening over minimum wage or unionization.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Mr. Nick Beaudrot‏ @nbeaudrot 14 Nov 2020
          Replying to @samth @HeerJeet and

          Obama '12 is a silly baseline to choose. Campaign decisions and the auto bailout/let GM go bankrupt "artificially" juiced Obama's in Michigan.

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        1. James Conran‏ @JamesConran1 14 Nov 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @karpmj @EricLevitz

          He was definitely constrained by his very anti-Brexit support base but I think there was a window right after the 2017 election when he was so strong that he could have saved himself a lot of later trouble by definitively ruling out a 2nd referendum.

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