How Democrats squandered their 'emerging majority'
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Decades ago, Ruy Teixeira famously wrote that a more diverse America would lean heavily Democratic. But as he's watched Donald Trump's rise, he believes it's Democrats themselves who are to blame. Why?
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| 0:49.5 | In 2002, political scientist Rue Tashira co-authored, along with John Judas, a book called |
| 0:55.6 | The Emerging Democratic Majority. |
| 0:59.2 | It was highly influential in Democratic Party leadership circles. |
| 1:03.5 | The book argued that an increasingly diverse America would lean heavily Democratic. |
| 1:09.5 | Or as Tashara said on NPR, |
| 1:12.2 | these coalitions emerge that include minorities, they include women, |
| 1:16.1 | they include even a large section of sort of blue-collar Democrats. |
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