The Democratic Civil War
2nd February 2020
Joel Kotkin watches the slow-motion train wreck.
For generations the Democratic Party has survived as an amalgam of competing factions: the labor-oriented party Middle American mainstream, the assorted billionaires and grandees from the coasts and the rising “clerisy “ of educated, credentialed professionals.
This coalition has shattered as the old unionized working-class base, at least among whites, has all but disappeared, replaced by the less settled precariat of unorganized, often temporary and increasingly non-white workers.
If white people ever get together and start voting as if they were an ethnic group, Democrats are in serious trouble.