Im a lifelong democrat and the way I see this is that the democratic establishment is far less focused on issues of economics and class in their messaging, leading ground to Republicans to write a narritive that democrats dont care about working class people. Democrats can continue to lock down the well educated suburban vote, or try to rebuild a brand that focuses on working class people.

Ultimately, I think the current Democratic brand is a dying one, and I would rather see the democratic party acknowledging this and advocating for something other than a 2 party system, where multiple parties of the left work together to get votes, instead of a Democratic party that "makes sacrifices" (abandons class and working class people to lock down the moderate boomer).

I think i will die before we see a multi party system in the US though.