Nate Cohn
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982 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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But what's changed is the group of voters beyond that Democratic Socialist Corps, the sort of swing voters of democratic primary politics, the people who aren't necessarily true believers, but who preferred Bernie Sanders to his opponent Hillary Clinton.
In that election in 2016, the voters who preferred Sanders to Clinton even though they weren't true believers were mostly working class and particularly working class white voters.
Bernie Sanders swept rural parts of Michigan and Wisconsin.
And he did so in part because he was relentlessly focused on a populist message, and in part because Hillary Clinton was sort of the perfect foil on economic populist issues.
She had backed NAFTA and she, you know, had taken all of this money from speeches from corporations and so on.
Uh and she also campaigned pretty heavily on identity politics, for lack of a better word, in that election.
She was the candidate.
trying to rally the supporters of Black Lives Matter, and she was also running as potentially the first female president.
And those were major points of emphasis in her campaign.
And together that seemed to give Bernie Sanders the edge among white working class Democrats across much of the northern United States in particular.
And even once she became the nominee, Hillary Clinton still struggled among these voters.
Many of them actually ended up backing Donald Trump and have been part of the Republican coalition really ever since.
And they haven't even been available to candidates of the progressive left in many cases.
If you were to look at the map of Wisconsin and Michigan the last couple of weeks, compared to the twenty sixteen one, they look completely different.
They're not winning those rural areas anymore.
It's absolutely an important part of their message.
And as I alluded to earlier, they do tend to do better among lower-income voters than certainly rich voters.
But this is not necessarily nearly as central to their message as it was to Bernie Sanders' message.
And conversely, I'm not sure that today's moderate Democrats are as vulnerable on these issues as Hillary Clinton was.
There is on balance compared to 2016 much more emphasis by progressives on non-economic issues, period.
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