Saying that Dems need to “show up” in solidly GOP districts is a slogan, not a strategy. What Dems actually need to do is seriously evaluate their main strategic alternatives.

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There is a sector of working class voters who can be persuaded to vote for Democrats in 2024 – but only if candidates understand how to win their support.

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Calling the Democratic Party a “coalition” is a venerable cliché of Democratic political life. But in recent years, it has basically become an empty one. The party’s working-class support has so markedly declined that Democrats largely have stopped describing the party as a “big tent coalition.” However, the notion that the party is nonetheless a coalition remains common.

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Democratic strategists: The widely discussed new book White Rural Rage employs a deeply misleading sensationalism to gain media attention. You should read The Rural Voter by Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea instead. It is a far more thoughtful and profoundly researched analysis of rural Americans.

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Democrats: GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini’s book, Party of the People is an extremely perceptive and important analysis of American working class voters both white and nonwhite that Democrats should carefully read and understand.

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The recently published book, Rust Belt Union Blues, by Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol represents a profoundly important contribution to the debate over Democratic strategy.

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By Andrew Levison

There is a widespread frustration among many Democratic political strategists today about the attitude of “woke/social justice” activists who flatly reject the value of seeking to win any greater white working class/rural support and dismiss the possibility that such efforts might ever be successful. In response, since 2016 there have been a wide range of articles and commentaries that have tried to sympathetically explain the attitudes of white working class and rural voters and to argue for why activists from the progressive wing of the party should try to better understand and sympathize with their outlook and concerns.

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A Serious, Step by Step political strategy for regaining support from a pivotal group of white working class voters who now support the GOP.

Immigration “Chaos” Could Sink Democrats in 2024 – And the Democratic Narrative Simply Doesn’t Work.

Here’s An Alternative That Does.