Anyone who buys into this has learned nothing.
I don't know, I think he's right about two major things: white working-class voters (and the white electorate as a whole) is shrinking, and there's no reason for the Democrats to completely overhaul their outreach efforts. The demographics are only going to continue shifting in the Democrats' favor, so reorienting the focus of the party toward WWC over minorities seems like a foolish and myopic strategy.
I'm kind of confused by the calls for the DNC to completely rethink its approach, because we already a twice-proven winning approach with Barrack Obama. Don't abandon the Obama coalition in the slightest, but don't abandon WWC voters either. A more exciting candidate is clearly necessary, and maybe that's part of the reason WWC voters were more likely to flock to Obama than Hillary. But Hillary's fatal flaw was that her campaign outright ignored WWC voters. Obama didn't; he still lost among them, by much smaller margins than Hillary did, because he worked at them.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, don't overthink the lessons from this election. Repeat Obama's strategy and keep your eyes on the base coalition without forgetting WWC voters in the process. Am I wrong to think that seems like a pretty obvious way to win the White House again?
