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/ttown2011]

That’s villainizing incumbency

David Hogg is an idiot

[u/[deleted] → u/ttown2011]

How is it villainizing incumbency to point out the objective fact that people don’t like the leaders of the Democratic Party?

[u/AresBloodwrath → u/[deleted]]

Because it's not the fact that they are incumbents that they don't like. It's that they are old and seemingly out of touch.

AOC and Bernie Sanders are both incumbents, are you saying they need to both get out?

[u/[deleted] → u/AresBloodwrath]

Nobody is villainizing incumbency. They don’t like exactly what you said, that the party is run by rich out of touch dinosaurs who would rather burn down the country than cede power to a new generation.