WTH Should Democrats Learn from Trump's Victory? Ruy Teixeira Explains

What the Hell Is Going On

AEI Podcasts

History, Government, News, Politics

4.4 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

President Donald Trump made gains among nearly every single demographic group in his historic victory, particularly with Hispanic and young voters. As the Democratic Party asks itself how it lost to Trump – a man they cast as a dictatorial threat to Democracy itself – it will have to look inward and realize it has moved from being the “party of the kitchen table” to the “party of the faculty lounge.” Working middle-class voters don’t identify with a party that spends more time criticizing anyone who disagrees with them as bigoted than working to make peoples’ lives better. Will Democratic leaders learn from their mistakes and move to the center on cultural issues? Or will the Democrats continue to pander to their progressive base?

Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Teixeira is co-founder of the Liberal Patriot Substack and co-author of the books The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner, 2002) and Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes (Henry Holt & Company, 2023).

Read the transcript here.

Subscribe to our Substack here.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.0	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on?
0:01.1	Who in God's name knows what it's all about.
0:29.2	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:30.9	And I'm Mark Teeson.
0:32.1	Welcome to our podcast.
0:33.4	What the hell is going on?
0:36.3	Post-Trump election version number 46.
0:40.6	What's going on, Mark?
0:41.7	What the hell is going on is we're exploring what the hell happened to the Democrats.
0:46.9	Because this election was, you know, the Democrats are trying to figure out how the heck did the American people vote for
0:54.5	Donald Trump and not just vote in in an electoral college landslide, but in a popular vote
0:59.7	victory. They lost, you know, they always took some comfort in, well, he won the electoral college,
1:04.4	but he lost. In fact, my favorite Babylon B post of the post-election was Democrats call for banning the popular vote.
1:13.1	It's like, you always hear the Democrats want to get rid of the electoral college.
1:15.9	Democrats now want to get rid of the popular vote as well.
1:18.3	Trump gained ground with, there's this fascinating chart based on the exit polls in the financial times,
1:24.4	with every single demographic group except voters over 65 and white college
1:32.7	women. Every other demographic group, Hispanics, black, Asian, young voters, male, female,
1:39.9	non-college educated, white, black, you name it, everybody moved in Trump's direction in this
1:45.8	election. And so the Democrats have got to be sitting there looking at this and saying,
1:49.4	what the hell happened? And we've got the perfect person to give us the answer to that today.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AEI Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of AEI Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.