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Ben Wikler: “The ruling party in every country in the world, every…”

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Ben Wikler What Democrats Need to Learn from 2024.

Published | Video Starts at 01:45

But we can see one thing really clearly, which is that this is the first election in my lifetime where Democrats lost the majority of people earning under $50,000 a year. And if you pull back the lens, you see that The ruling party in every country in the world, every developed democracy in the world that's had an election this year, the party in power, left, right and center, lost vote share. The United States was not unusual in that. And the clue about what happened is that for people of you know, who don't have giant stock market portfolios that were … (01:45–01:56)

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