Good Advice for Democrats

Good Advice for Democrats
People wait to vote at the Joslyn Park center in Santa Monica, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2024. Apu Gomes/Getty Images
John Maxwell Hamilton
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The national election returns last November gave the Democrats a comeuppance. They may not have lost the White House or Congress by large margins, but they cannot take solace in that. The election returns showed support for their party is dangerously eroding among the people on whom they once depended—the young, and black and Hispanic voters—as well as further slippage in support from once thoroughly Democratic blue-collar workers.

John Maxwell Hamilton
John Maxwell Hamilton
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John Maxwell Hamilton is a journalist, public servant, and educator. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication, a Global Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His most recent book, “Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of Government Propaganda,” won the Goldsmith Book Prize.