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On the recordJanuary 18, 2025
The party should look deeper and say, why is it that so many people are disaffected from institutions in this country?
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod suggests that the Democratic Party needs to understand why they have lost support among working-class people.

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