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This week, Democrats are back in D.C. after a gut punch of an election for the party.

You already know the story. Working people throughout the nation's diverse regions basically

thought that Donald Trump was a better pick for them. But embedded in Trump's victory

is another bitter pill for Dems to swallow, that marginalized communities a big chunk of America's

working class made shifts toward Trump too. The result? A massive problem Democrats now need to solve.

First, how to reclaim their generation's longstanding as the party for working people.

And second, how to merge that with their more recent emphasis on inclusion and a big tent.

One person who knows a lot about all of that is Ohio Democratic

Senator Sherrod Brown. I'm not an expert in psychoanalyzing how voters get to Donald Trump,

but I know that we've let them get to Donald Trump by not focusing on them and listening to

them and showing we're on the side of workers all the time. As you recall, Brown first won his Senate seat in 2006 when Ohio was the definition of a swing state.

He cruised to re-election there in 2012 and 2018, despite the Buckeye states drift into the Republican column.

And even though he just lost his reelection, he still managed to outperform

Vice President Kamala Harris's margin in Ohio by about eight points. The very core of his identity

has been American workers in American manufacturing. America first, really, people.

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