Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira discuss what Biden would need to do to rebuild a broad coalition for the 2024 election. Ruy Teixeira is a political scientist, the co-founder and politics editor of The Liberal Patriot, and the author, with John Judis, of The Emerging Democratic Majority and, most recently, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira discuss how Democrats lost the working class and what it might take to win it back; how Teixeira's theory that demographic change would favor the Democratic Party has been misinterpreted; and why Democrats, despite Trump’s unpopularity, have failed to open up a decisive lead in the polls. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	What are the principles through the Democratic Party? Are the principles of
0:35.1	Democratic Party and race that different races should be favored over
0:38.5	others? We should have reparations that we should, you know know America is a white supremacist society
0:43.8	that America shot through with racism it was born and slavery marinated in racism and
0:49.3	is that a united society this day is that a principle of the Democratic Party or is that a
0:54.4	belief of a certain sector of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left that is
0:59.7	now sort of difficult to argue against within the Democratic Party but doesn't even
1:03.0	reflect where most voters are coming from it doesn't even reflect where a lot of
1:06.3	non-white voters are coming from. So what is the point of this if it's alienating
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