To stop Trump, Democrats must reinvent themselves

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The 2024 election confirmed the continued erosion of Democratic support among non-college Latino, Black and Asian-American voters.
58% : Trump won 31 states last year, to Kamala Harris's 19. To compete nationally, Democrats must rebuild a cross-class coalition.
58% : Democrats can't beat Trump and the populist right with the discredited progressive playbook they've been following since 2016.
46% : It's also time for Democrats to stop aping populists on both the left and the right and instead rediscover the tough-minded and pragmatic liberalism that has animated their party at its best, from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman to Jack and Bobby Kennedy and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
42% : That's why the Democratic coalition is shrinking and retracting into its urban bastions, conceding vast swaths of the country to Trump and the Republicans.
34% : Amid growing public frustration with public schools, Democrats should resume leadership in reforming and modernizing our overly bureaucratic and centralized K-12 school systems.
33% : Instead of "college for all" and student debt relief, Democrats should call for a dramatic expansion of apprenticeship and "learn and earn" education that helps the non-college majority get valuable skills and work experience to launch their careers.
29% : As President Trump and Congressional Republicans use their slim majorities to try to foist a radical regime change on America, Democrats need to reckon with why they're watching helplessly from the sidelines.
13% : It also should use E-Verify to crack down on employers (like Trump's golf clubs) that knowingly hire illegal aliens. Democrats also should distance themselves from climate activists more interested in demonizing fossil fuels than enlisting working-class support for a clean energy transition that doesn't threaten them with energy scarcity and higher fuel bills.

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