other important changes in terms of the role of women and professionals, and we thought the democrats would not necessarily and automat sically dominate but rather they had a really good chance if they took advantage of these changes to form a, you know, potentially governing majority that might have some durability, but we did have some caveats even at the time, and i think that s important to point out, and i think that s one of the reasons why the democrats are in the trouble they re in today. one of those is that we always stipulated that there was a necessity for the democrats to retain a very significant portion of the white working class vote because while demographics were changing, they were still a huge voter group, particularly in very important states. and as we saw over the course of the 21st century, that didn t turn out to be the case, that they re able to keep their share of the white working class votes stable. you said that democrats are alienating the white working