Analyzing the 2024 Election: How Democrats Lost the Working Class and What It Means for America’s Future

What happened in the 2024 election, and what can we expect from Donald Trump during these next four years? In our follow-up conversation, Kyle Morrison describes why Kamala Harris and Democrats lost favor among many US Americans and how US voters shifted during the 2024 election. Even though we talked in January, 2025 in the weeks before Trump was sworn into office, his predictions of what to watch out for during a Trump second term still remain salient.

He also describes what Democrats can do to win back power. Voters tend to vote based on how they feel, and he discusses how to resonate with voters in political campaigns in the current age of social media.

Kyle is an anthropologist specializing in US moderate conservative movements, particularly conservatives who do not support Donald Trump or the contemporary Republican party (sometimes also called “Never Trumpers”). He also has years of experience conducting grassroots organizing and developing consensus across competing political perspectives to promote equitable labor practices.