November 2, 2024
Trump's Middle-Class Realignment
By Brian P. Burke
Donald Trump has realigned the Republican party’s base and correspondingly reshaped the Democratic party’s traditional core. Of course, the full extent -- and the efficacy -- of his reshuffling the two parties’ electoral structures will only be fully seen next week. But even today anyone can see that Vice President Harris is campaigning oblivious to this sea change in the electorate.
The Harris campaign has been hosting events with NeverTrumper establishment Republicans, D.C. insiders, and ridiculously rich celebrities who stoke unfounded fears over Trump’s supposed uncapped volatility, authoritarianism, and dangerousness to women’s medical freedoms. These endorsements are designed to prove the Vice-President’s centrism, especially with suburban women voters, and the purportedly estranging extremism of her opponent, especially to suburban women voters. Regardless of the genuineness of these conversions, peeling off these erstwhile GOP sachems -- many of whom Trump forced out of the party or were once despised by Democrats -- are not moving the needle in public polling.
Once, affluent suburban country club voters tended to vote their financial self-interests and favored conservative Republican candidates. The GOP’s presidential nominees were usually well known, decorous gentlemen dripping with foreign policy credentials and moral rectitude. These boring candidates famously waited in line for their turn to run and then ran boring campaigns nearly identical to the previous nominee’s.
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