Three Key Takeaways:
- Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential loss triggered a shift of blue-collar voters from the Democrat Party to the GOP, as many felt abandoned by the party’s elite leadership and left-wing policies.
- After the election, Democrats began disparaging blue-collar voters, labeling them as racist and bigoted, which further alienated the working-class constituency that had once been loyal to the party.
- The Democrat Party’s increasing alignment with wealthy coastal elites and their failure to address the concerns of working-class voters have left them struggling to regain support from this key demographic.
Hillary Clinton spent her whole life trying to become President.
Her pursuit of the White House cost her party dearly.
And Hillary Clinton made one bad decision that left Democrats in dire straits.
Hillary Clinton sparked the exodus of blue-collar voters to the GOP
Blue-collar voters were one of the key constituencies of the Democrat Party dating back to the New Deal era.
Under President Donald Trump, they began to shift to the Right.
Trump’s support from blue-collar voters allowed him to win the Blue Wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and the Presidency in 2016 and 2024.
Now Democrats are hemorrhaging non-college-educated voters of every race.
Conservative radio host Dana Loesch argued it was Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 Presidential campaign that set in motion the exodus of blue-collar voters from the Democrat Party during an appearance on Fox Business.
“Democrats were happy to have them until the moment they turned up their noses at Hillary Clinton because they didn’t like what she was offering,” Loesch explained. “And then, in a split second, Democrats began maligning the character of this voting bloc, this blue-collar worker, hard-working class, middle-class voting bloc.”
The coastal elites that run the Democrat Party and the media began to sneer at blue-collar voters in flyover country after the 2016 Election.
“They began running them down, impugning their characters, calling them racists and bigots because they didn’t vote for the old white lady who fell down in Manhattan and lost a Tory Burch slipper,” Loesch said.
Democrats set themselves up for big problems
Democrats have become the party of the wealthy coastal elites and college campuses.
They still try to hold onto their old branding as the party of the working class.
Loesch dismissed claims by some Democrats that the party would split from the billionaire class that backs it.
“The idea that they’re going to be the party of the working class now, I love this sound bite that you all played coming into this, because the gentleman speaking was saying we’re going to separate billionaires from the Democrat Party,” Loesch stated. “Well, if they do that, how are they going to run anybody going up into 2028?”
Democrats rail against Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Trump for being billionaires.
They’ve turned billionaires into bogeymen but they’re notably silent about the ones bankrolling their party.
“I noticed that they didn’t object with George Soros, with Ted Turner, with Warren Buffett, with Newsome, with Pelosi, with the Gettys, with the Hearsts, all of these people that have come together to form the modern Democrat Party,” Loesch said. “The working class left because decades and generations of Democrat policies have failed Americans.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are holding a “Fighting Oligarchy” town hall series across the country.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is meeting with Big Tech billionaires in Silicon Valley to win back their support for the 2026 Midterm Elections.
Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 set in motion the loss of blue-collar voters that have haunted the party ever since.
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