The Daily Chart: What’s Left of the Dems?

What’s left of the Democratic Party? Hardly anything, if you mean “left” ideologically rather than just the remains of the party after an election loss of this character. The media and demented political scientists like my former colleague Norm Ornstein have been arguing for years that the GOP is the radical party in American politics, but the data say otherwise:

What’s the chief attraction of the Democratic Party today?

The problem is, the number of Americans who like their positions on these issues is shrinking. Apparently it’s now mostly rich, white people:

 

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