Democrats have become too extreme for many voters

AP:

The Democrats of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, crowded onto the steps of a local courthouse, dozens of union men protesting a looming power plant closure that would put their livelihoods at risk.

The crowd was overwhelmingly white and male, and few had college degrees. Left unsaid, at least from the podium, were broader concerns about a national Democratic Party many believe no longer represents them.

“Democrats are becoming way too extreme,” Shaun Majors, a 42-year-old high school graduate who has worked at the nearby Beaver Valley Power Station for almost his entire adult life, said before last week’s event began. “I voted for Trump last time, and I would again.”

A few days earlier, tens of thousands of Democrats crowded into a Manhattan park, cheering Elizabeth Warren’s calls for “Medicare for All,” a crackdown on gun violence and the end of the fossil fuel industry. The crowd was ethnically diverse, heavily female and highly educated — people like 41-year-old Kelly Hafermann of Brooklyn, who has a master’s degree and works at an Ivy League university not far away.

“I want the bold ideas,” Hafermann said, praising the leftward shift of her party’s politics. “I want to be around people who feel the same way.”

The dueling scenes illustrate the high-stakes debate playing out among Democrats just over four months before the party begins to select its next presidential nominee. While the party’s coastal elites demand bold liberal policies, working class voters in the Midwest are warning presidential candidates to move to the middle or risk giving President Donald Trump another four years in the White House.

The highly educated urban Democrats may be the most vocal, particularly on Twitter. But it is the working class in places like Beaver County who may ultimately decide Trump’s fate.
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I have a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree and Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat I voted for.  They became way to extreme for me 30 years ago.  The attempt to suggest that uneducated white guys are the only people leaving the Democrats is grossly misleading.   Democrats clearly no longer support working-class voters because their agenda will put them out of work.  They vow to shut down the oil and gas business in Texas which has millions of people working from rough neckes to highly educated engineers and lawyers.  They want to put ranchers out of business because they produce red meat.  Their war on the energy industry will put people out of work across the country and destroy the transporation industry too.