Class dealignment, in short, should be understood as a result of Democrats’ policy decisions in the 1990s and their work since 2000 to actively bring their electoral strategy into line with their ...

American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to be simple: Republicans were for business, Democrats for labor.” But since the 1970s, class dealignment—the delinkage of ...

Recent polling suggests that working-class voters have soured on the Trump administration over the past year. The president's approval ratings have cratered, war and tariff-induced inflation is on the ...

Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party? Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, discusses what it would take for Democrats to better appeal to working-class ...

Dealignment has arrived. Republicans blew it, and are now so repellent that Americans increasingly reject both political parties. In the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, 43 percent of voters labeled ...

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again. American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to ...