To understand where you’re going, you have to first grasp where you’ve been.
In the context of politics, that means you need to figure out what the 2024 election told us about America before deciding what it all means not just for Donald Trump but also for the country’s two major political parties.
That’s where former AFL-CIO political director
comes in. Mike has long been known as one of the smartest minds in Washington — in either party.His analysis of the election — “How Trump ‘Won’” — is to my mind one of the best breakdowns of what actually happened on November 5 that I have seen.
(Sidebar: If you won’t subscribe to Mike’s “Weekend Reading” Substack, you need to. Now.)
His argument is that most analysts (and people) have an incomplete understanding of what happened in the election because they are not closely examining the 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote for either candidate in 2024.
We talked about that — and what (if anything) Democrats should do next in a Substack Live today.
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, , , , , and many others — we had more than 3,500 people on live! — for tuning in. Join me for my next live video — tomorrow at 10:30 am with to talk about the mainstream media — by downloading the Substack app.
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