Not long after the shock came the questioning and finger-pointing. Was Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump caused by excess wokeness? A paucity of liberal podcasters? Insurmountable sexism and racism? Biden’s hubris? His and Harris’s facilitation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza? Inflation? Disinformation? The mind reels at the scope of Democratic failures. The makeup of Trump’s newly broadened base—the former and future President swept every swing state and made big gains across deep-blue states and cities—was no less impressive. Most discussed has been the swing of young people, people of color, and low-income voters away from Democrats toward Trump, where they voted at all. The more diverse a county, the more it shifted toward Trump; counties with the highest share of Black, Latino or low-income voters also saw the steepest drops in turnout. Nationwide, voters with household incomes under $100,000 split roughly evenly between the candidates, a blow to the Democrats and a coup for the right.…