In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Ruy Teixeira about the current state of the Democratic party. They discuss how Democrats are running in 2024, why Democrats have abandoned the working class voters, and why they have pivoted to college educated voters. They talk about immigration challenges with Democrats, impact of populism on the Right and the Left, Latinos shifting to the Republican Party, cultural issues, and many more topics. Ruy Teixeira is a sociologist and political commentator who writes on issues of party coalitions and American politics. He is nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and was previously senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2022. He has a MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority and his latest book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?Substack: Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe