By this point, Democrats had already made inroads with higher-income voters, while lower-income ones had started to gravitate toward Republicans. By 2016, the Democratic Party had become sufficiently disconnected from its blue-collar foundations to create an opening for Donald Trump to swoop in and steal the party’s 100-year-old playbook, riding to victory with greater-than-expected support from working-class
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