Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy is overpraised and overblamed. The Republicans did not really take the South until the midterms of 1994.
But Nixon did put together a winning coalition for himself, and fundamental to it were a robust Keynesianism and an acceptance of the New Deal. Southern and other Democrats who were attracted to him would never otherwise have been so.
Donald Trump has also borrowed much of the economic rhetoric and even some of the economic policies of, for example, Bernie Sanders.
The Democratic Party needs to do the same thing. But there is no sign that it will. Instead, it is preparing to restore Nancy Pelosi to the Speakership, and it is preparing to nominate Hillary Clinton again in 2020.
Trump's re-election, which has always been more likely than not, is now practically certain. The Democratic Party will have only itself to blame.
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