Democrats are trying to work out where it all went wrong. On the left of the party a consensus is forming

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Though their warning is already meeting some resistance, Democrats including Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders offered stern critiques of their party’s accelerated losses with working-class voters of all races, especially men, as well as other constituencies once considered core parts of the Obama coalition, like Latino voters. open image in gallery Bernie Sanders laid out his reasoning for accusing the Democrats of abandoning working-class voters in a pair of twin interviews on Sunday “I think she would have certainly won Michigan if there was more of a reckoning” of the “failures” of the Biden administration’s policies in the region, Khanna told Margaret Brennan. "Beyond Michigan, this really was a concern for a lot of young people and a… pic.twitter.com/yCYupEht4e — Face The Nation November 10, 2024 “The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of fifty years of neoliberalism, which has left legions of Americans adrift as local places are hollowed out, rapacious profit seeking cannibalizes the common good, and unchecked new technology separates and isolates us,” wrote Murphy, who represents the northeastern blue bastion of Connecticut. But we are beyond small fixes.” open image in gallery Senator Chris Murphy emerged as a lead negotiator for his party in the Senate earlier this year, and is now delivering criticism of party leaders after a stunning defeat to Donald Trump It was as clear of a rebuke of the Democratic Party’s leadership as any remotely mainstream figures have made since the 2016 primary, a traumatizing battle which left scars in the party that never healed and made many wary of a intra-party fight for the nomination this year.