The Depolarizers

The Trump era has seen a reduction in racial polarization, driven largely by an increase in education polarization. But with Trump’s core policy win being a massive tax cut for the wealthy, can Republicans really become the Working Class Party?

Episode Three of The Depolarizers features guests Patrick Ruffini and Ruy Teixeira. Ruffini is a Republican pollster, author of Party of the People, and one of the country’s leading experts on political targeting, technology, and demography. Ruffini worked on Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and has been a leader in the Republican Party’s shift to digital. Teixeira is a name you’ve probably heard mentioned on WelcomeStack, as he also leads popular centrist publication The Liberal Patriot. Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a political scientist who focuses on demographic political trends. He’s co-author of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, which explores how Democrats are risking losses among key historical constituencies by catering too much to college-educated white voters.