yglesias actually has no idea why democrats lost the 2024 election - not a single thing he has proposed would realistically have changed the result. what he is trying to do is make his ideological enemies persona non grata within the party. it's a power grab masquerading as election analysis

The intense hand-wringing over holding Trump accountable to basic legal and moral rules, the insistence that problems caused by Trump are ultimately the responsibility of voters and must be solved by them… they all run strongly against the kind of reassurances people are seeking from government

White people sure seem a lot more economically anxious than nonwhite people, even though nonwhite people are poorer! Curious!