“It’s THE Political Shift Of A Generation”

More attention can be paid to a few things here.

Thomas Edsall articles at The New York Times are usually pretty good, research-laden deep dives into a topic where he emails academics and others for further insight. This is a good example of one, about how the left and right have shifted over the years:

Opinion | It's Not Your Father's Democratic Party. But Whose Party Is It?

Within that article, he talks to the authors of this paper:

Those authors tell him this:

The ongoing development of the Democratic Party as a party not of labor but of socioeconomic elites, and the ongoing development of the Republican Party as a party not of business but of working class social…