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We warned the Democratic party that disaster was coming. They didn’t listen | Dustin Guastella

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Julian Zelizer : Kamala Harris’s closing message was not landing with working-class voters.

But a number of Democrats in tough districts won re-election and outperformed the top of the ticket, Zelizer says.

He says they took pains to ensure their message of commonsense solidarity wouldn’t be drenched in liberal elitism common to preachy leftwing candidates.

To be liberal today is to embrace the values of well-educated, high-income, big-city professionals.

Dustin Guastella : If the left wants to resuscitate the New Deal coalition, we will need to take steps to renew a populism that challenges the power of the very rich on the right and the elite and elitist on the left.

He says the fact that this exchange went viral speaks to the persistent challenge that elite candidates will face.

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80

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English

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