Subject: Re: The Last Thing Democrats Need Is More Policy Plans
Can anyone think of any other reason why Democrats lost [the working-class vote] in 2024?

I think that's a different question than asking whether the Democrats need more policy plans. The election loss in 2024 - especially the Presidential race - is overdetermined. Tons of possible causes that are large enough to explain the loss.

The question in the article in the OP is, I think, a little narrower: why didn't the Democrats' actual policies help more? That's not unique to those authors - there seems to be a growing consensus that Bidenomics just wasn't popular, a recognition that extends even to groups that were big fans of the substance:

https://prospect.org/2026/04/0...

The OP article basically says that you can't win elections without strong parties, and that the bones of the party aren't their policy plans. They're structural, institutional, coalition-building organizations - they're a thing, not an idea. You can't rebuild parties by having better ideas than "the other side," because it's not the ideas that get people to support a party. A party is a team, a group of aligned people...not just, or even primarily, a platform.