MY TAKE ON IT:

With all due respect, I think the authors are missing a big part of the picture. They correctly identified Democrats’ losses among working and middle-class people of all races and ethnicities but missed a big part of their gains. These gains came from the managerial class and business, not because they were good in economics but because contemporary businesses, both big and small, are highly incorporated into the regulatory hierarchy of government and dependent on government bureaucrats for their very existence.  Ever since FDR’s revolution, these government bureaucrats have become a core constituency of the Democratic party, with the working class providing mass support in exchange for government handouts and interventions into the economy through Union support, labor legislation, welfare, and so on.

The expansion of government in all areas of life and the economy led to the creation of a massive parasitic class in overblown, hugely expensive, ineffective, and inefficient healthcare and education. This new class does not provide enough numbers to override the popular vote, but it has control over the election process, making popular vote nearly irrelevant to its results. Democratic success in 2020 and 2022 in fixing election results created overconfidence in their ability to maintain power forever.

This prompted Democrats to open borders so they could substitute Americans who used to feel themselves to be free, whether this feeling is realistic or not, and have a high demand for quality of life (American Dream) with masses of illegal immigrants that often see the difference between high-quality live in America and misery of their native countries as something natural, not related to culture and institutions. They could be excused in such thinking because all they see is that doing the same job they did back home in the USA provides 40-50 times more returns while doing nothing, and just getting on public assistance provides 10 times more. To come to America illegally and illegally vote for Democrats is a very small price to pay for such dramatic improvement.

However, I do not think this is the end of the story. Many more Americans were hurt by Democratic policies than benefited from it. These are not only working-class people who see their jobs going to illegals or that the factories they worked in before shipped to China or Mexico. It is also college graduates who invested in education and could not get decent jobs they counted on or could not move ahead because they belong to the wrong race. The history of the Soviet Union demonstrated that it is possible to suppress the majority, however miserable, using ideologically brainwashed youths and government violence. Still, it could happen only if all communications were fully controlled, any resistance or even expression of unhappiness suppressed with concentration camps or outright murder, and an organization like the KGB or Stasi fully controlled by the party had a vast network of informers. The control of the Democratic party over media, especially social media, is far from complete. The FBI is corrupted to the bone, but not KGB yet. The population not only has access to any information, but it also includes lots of people who understand the situation, including immigrants from totalitarian countries and lots of Americans educated in real history. Finally, the population is armed and seems uninclined to give up these arms.  It would be interesting to see how it unfolds over the next few years or months.