21 years ago, John Judas and Rui Tachera wrote a book that defined a political era.

In the emerging Democratic majority, Judas and Tachera argued that America's demographic destiny belonged to the Democrats.

A left-of-centre coalition of minorities, young people, women, and knowledge economy professionals, was going to allow the Dems to break

through the political stalemate that defined the early 2000s and perhaps even create an FDR style realignment.

Two years after the book's publication in 2004,

Barack Obama was elected to the Senate from Illinois

and he seemed to be the perfect avatar for this new Democratic

majority.

In 2008 Obama put together the very coalition that Judas and Tishera described in their book

and he won the White House.

Democratic strategists pointed to the Judas to share a theory and confidently predicted

that their party now had a lock on the Electoral College.

Then Donald Trump came along and picked the lock.

Now Judas and Tichera are back with their explanation about what happened.

And their new book, Where have all the Democrats gone, is not likely to be embraced so warmly by the

party that they both say they want to succeed.

Democrats, they write, need to look in the mirror and examine the extent to which their

own failures contributed to the rise of the most toxic tendencies on the right.

I'm Ryan Liza and this is Playbook Deep Dive. is playbook deep dive. John Judas, you know, I voted for Bernie, but I recognize that he would have been

a disaster.

And Ruy to share it.

But, you know, Biden is not the party. The party is a much

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