Here's why my fellow Democrats will lose big next week

Democrats continue to bleed working-class voters, and for much of this cycle Democratic candidates haven’t talked about working-class concerns. Instead, they’ve focused on abortion rights, gun control, and safeguarding democracy, all important issues with some connection to working-class voters. But this narrative hasn’t connected with these voters on a level that matters. …

But if things go the way they seem to be trending for the Democrats, the blame game will begin immediately. A circular firing squad will quickly emerge. More talk will emerge about possible primary challenges to President Biden in 2024. Much of this post-election debate will avoid the bigger picture questions, including why America is incapable of building stable majority political coalitions and how the political duopoly dominating politics benefits from the status quo.

Some Democrats will look to explain away the losses by saying their opponents and those who voted for them are inherently racist or budding autocrats. Others will look to Vladimir Putin or the Saudi government as the boogeymen that ruined the midterm elections.

But there’s one other place Democrats will need to look for lessons about the likely political losses to come: the mirror.