No. of Recommendations: 8
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/2026/04/07/apr-2026-magazine-...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.
