Democrats' Move to the Right Profoundly Affects our Young People and Our Future.

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56. You could drive a truck through the massive gaps of history lacking in this OP

Where, pray tell, did Ronald Reagan's majority come from? The roots are in Nixon's very successful appeal to white resentment in '68 and '72. By then, he had the tacit and in many cases overt support of the unions that are lionized in the OP. Racism, misogyny, jingoism...all of these were rampant in the white male dominated unions, which helped to tear the Democratic party apart.

The wounds were not healed for decades, not by Carter's one-off, narrow, post-Watergate win, which of course had strong elements of conservative-style Southern Christian morality subsequently fully appropriated by the GOP.

To your point, the degree of difficulty for Democrats on a national scale is so much higher than the keyboard left makes it out to be. Straightforward economic appeals are not a slam dunk, if they were, working class white male voters would never have defected when they had it much better than they do now.