Longtime Democratic political analyst Ruy Teixeira co-authored with John Judis the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority. President Obama’s first term appeared to be their thesis coming true. Today, Donald Trump is now serving his second term as President. What happened?
Meanwhile, Teixeira, who had spent his career working at Democratic think tanks like Brookings and the Center for American Progress, moved to the conservative American Enterprise Institute. What happened?
Teixeira joins me today to discusses the dramatic realignment of American political coalitions and what it means for the future. He explains his journey from progressive think tanks to the American Enterprise Institute, unpacks the Democrats' struggles with working-class voters, and offers a three-point plan for rebuilding the Democratic coalition.
Be sure to check out the reformist center-left publication he co-founded, the Liberal Patriot, whose very name gets at one of the shifts he thinks Democrats need to make.
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