President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory on Tuesday confirms it: the Obama coalition is dead and buried.
After former President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories brought together an incredibly diverse voter base of various identity groups, Democrats thought they had it made. Even 2016 didn’t dissuade them from this notion — many considered that election an outlier bump in the road.
However, Trump’s 2024 victory shattered that coalition, not because of the victory itself but because of how it was achieved.