The 2024 election made it abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is in need of reform if it hopes to compete in future elections.
More specifically, this must be a total overhaul of the party’s approach to how it campaigns, the candidates it recruits, the policies it advances, and importantly, who leads the Democratic National Committee.
Put another way, the party must break from its recent past, which saw power concentrated in progressives and the interest groups they dominate. That approach has steered the party too far left and out of step with mainstream voters, including core Democratic voters.
To be sure, the 2024 election was not just a blip, but the confirmation of a trend plaguing the Democratic Party for nearly a decade. Democrats have been hemorrhaging support among key voting blocs since 2016, particularly Hispanic voters, working-class, and non-college-educated voters.
Indeed, eight years ago, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won Hispanic voters by a 38-point margin (66 percent to 28 percent), voters making less than $50,000 by 12 points (53 percent to 41 percent), and lost non-college educated voters by 7 points (44 percent to 51 percent).
In the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris won Hispanic voters by just 5 points, while losing voters making under $50,000 (50 percent to 48 percent), and Trump expanded his margin with non-college-educated voters, winning them by 13 points.
Clearly, core parts of the........