https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/03\/04\/reagan-democrats-biden-republicans-politics-stan-greenberg-473330<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“For four decades now, that historic upheaval and the quest for the support of Reagan Democrats has defined American politics, from the rise of Bill Clinton\u2019s \u201cNew Democrats\u201d\u2014which Greenberg, as Clinton\u2019s pollster, had a central role in crafting\u2014to George W. Bush\u2019s \u201ccompassionate conservatism,\u201d to Barack Obama\u2019s poll-tested evisceration of Mitt Romney\u2019s venture capital experience, to Donald Trump\u2019s white-grievance mongering and tirades against NAFTA. After Obama won Macomb in 2008 and 2012, Trump captured it in 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n
Then something important happened: In leaning too hard into white identity politics\u2014and perhaps being too focused on what he thought Reagan Democrats wanted\u2014Trump accelerated the rise of a new voting bloc that is, in many ways, the mirror image of the Reagan Democrats.<\/p>\n
Call them the Biden Republicans.<\/p>\n
Like the Reagan Democrats, they\u2019re heavily white and live in suburbs. But where the Reagan Dems are blue-collar and culturally conservative, Greenberg sees the Biden Republicans as more affluent, highly educated and supportive of diversity. Historically, they identified with the Republican Party as their political home. But the leaders who were supposed to fight for them seem to care more about white grievance and keeping out immigrants; seem to care more about social issues and \u201cowning the libs\u201d than about child-care payments and college tuition. They don\u2019t consider themselves Democrats\u2014at least not yet\u2014but they are voting for them, delivering them majorities in the House and Senate, and making Joe Biden just the fourth candidate in the past century to defeat an incumbent president.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1262,198,780,1263,1268,506,479],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-joe-biden","tag-partisanship","tag-political-parties","tag-republicans","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}