Uuuf, no way, Joe! It goes back to the nineties and Clinton's "third way" abandoning the usually reliably Democratic voting working-class and union voters.

They'd always campaigned on woring-class economic issues but stopped. Taking Wall Street money but neding to run on something, they focused more and more on identity and less on those "kitchen table" issues.

Rich suburban counties that used to be Republican flipped to Democrat and all the working class counties flipped red. They're long-standing trends that get deeper and deeper.

There used to be all the talk about how Democrats were going to dominate because of simple demographic shifts but even that theory is looking shaky with Trump gaining in minority support.

It is grim. And at least 50% of the blame is the Democratic Party. Not Bernie, the far left, Putin... regular Dems themselves. I always say that for all the Ivy league degrees, they're incredibly dense.