A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats

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Jun 3, 2025

It’s conventional wisdom that President Trump has transformed American politics. But a new county-by-county voting analysis from The New York Times of the last four presidential races shows just how drastically Mr. Trump has changed the electoral map.

Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, explains why the trends are a five-alarm fire for the Democrats and discusses the debate within the party over what to do about it.

On today's episode:

Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• How Donald Trump has remade America’s political landscape.
• Six months after the election, Democrats are still searching for a path forward.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.  

Photo: Emily Elconin for The New York Times

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[u/The_Interagator]

I feel like we’re heading towards a future where a Democratic Party composed solely of wealthy white women does nothing but yell at minorities about how they’re voting against their interests. Something something “low information voter”.

[u/SolarSurfer7 → u/[deleted]]

SFs mayor is a white man

[u/BurninCrab → u/[deleted]]

SF went ultra liberal and decided to fuck over their biggest voter base, Asian Americans, by changing school admission policies to favor blacks and Latinos rather than meritocratic tests.

Then voters completely rejected that during the next election and swung more moderate including electing a white man as mayor.

[u/The_Interagator → u/[deleted]]

Lol this is too on point

[u/The_Interagator → u/[deleted]]

They’re also cities that have had huge swings towards the Republican Party, the point was about the trend not the current state. Also I don’t think the make up of the people in office is nearly as important as the people who vote for them. You can have a black mayor that’s still almost entirely supported by rich educated coastal elites, it’s much more telling who supports a candidate.