It took years after the shock of 2016 for Democrats to confront the fact that the GOP had taken over the mantle of the working-class party. Many still refuse to face the facts. First, the empirical pattern of class-partisan realignment was treated as incredulous. Then, once the pattern was conceded to be robust, it was blamed on a presumably racially-re…
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