Is the democratic party relevant anymore?

Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, argues, as Edsall puts it, “that the Democratic Party has been taken over by what [Kotkin] calls ‘gentry liberals,’ an elite that has undermined the historic purpose of the Democratic Party. … Most Democratic politicians and strategists, according to Kotkin, ‘just have no feel at all — as Harry Truman and Bill Clinton did, for example — for the aspirations of the middle class. This is why they are losing them, and deservedly so.'”