It turns out it’s Democrats who moved away from the mainstream of American thought, leaving Republicans closer to the center and more relatable to voters.

By Katie GlueckIn Ohio, Sen. Sherrod Brown, a longtime champion of working-class voters, was toppled by a rich Republican former car dealer.In Washington, President Joe Biden — who won the Democratic nomination four years ago with the help of blue-collar voters — must now hand back power to Republicans and surrender leadership of a party increasingly dominated by highly educated voters.And in Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey, whose family name has for years been synonymous with white working-class D

In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy.

There’s no single reason Kamala Harris lost the election. But as the dust settles, it seems that one of Harris’s weaknesses—surely the most ironic of them—was that voters kinda thought sh…