But we have to be honest about where this coalition is. It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It's about elite disaffection and elite anger. The party of highly educated but downwardly mobile elites comprises a highly energetic activist base. But it's important because it's not just the elites, the college educated New Yorkers. That base was supplemented by carefully selected ethnic blocks carved out of the electorate, using identity politics as the knife. (06:47–06:52)
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Asserts that the party of educated but economically declining elites forms an active political base.
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