My column today is about a new report from Democrats on how their party has gone wrong:
The public also increasingly thinks the Democrats do not share their priorities — that they are “out of touch.” The authors write, “In comparison with the Democratic Party of 2012, today’s Democratic Party is more focused on issues like climate change, democracy, abortion, and identity and cultural concerns and less focused on the economy and the middle class.” They offer telling examples of changes in the party’s platform language in that period. There are now fewer references to “tax cuts,” the “middle class” and “fathers” (who disappeared entirely in 2024), more to “hate” and “climate.”
But for all the report’s insights into what ails the Democrats, I conclude, it doesn’t face the biggest challenges to reforming the party.