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?
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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)...
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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...
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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)...
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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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You seem like a nice and well-grounded person.
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