Republicans are celebrating this week and Democrats are going through various stages of despair and disbelief, wondering what to do next. Over at the NY Times, Ezra Klein has a reminder which seems written for an audience of dejected Democrats but which is probably something Republicans should think about as well.
There are really two messages, the first one is that the Obama coalition is dead and won’t be coming back. Whatever glue once held that group of progressives and minorities together just blew up. Instead of a black candidate winning as Obama did in 2008, we had a black candidate losing. Instead of uniform rallying together of minority groups to support Democrats, we had Republicans hitting new high-water marks with Hispanic, Black, Jewish and Asian Americans. As Beege might say, kaboom!
Trump got the win in 2024 he could see only glimmers of in…
