The Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election, lost the Congress, and effectively forfeited any influence they had on the Supreme Court. Many have been wondering how something like this could have happened and whether the Democratic Party can make some sort of comeback and save democracy in the U.S.

It seems likely that misogyny, racism, and MAGA’s radicalization of young men played some role in the Democrats’ losses. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) is also likely right that a good portion of the blame lies in Democrats' neglect of the needs of the working class, especially when attention to those needs amounted to little more than pandering.

Yet there is another factor that has been underestimated in the overall calculus of what went wrong and why the current Democratic Party

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