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Who is the Base of the Democratic Party? [1]

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Date: 2025-07-28

A comment on another entry of mine, started me on this path, this quest for this answer. The comment was “that elected dems reject their base”. Now to me Black folks have always been the base of the party and to my knowledge we’ve never felt rejected by officials, do we always agree? No but that’s a different story.

So I started thinking about this comment, and wondering maybe not all people think the base is the same thing?

It’s clear today that the base of the republican party is maga with all that entails. But what is the base of the Democratic party? Before we can attempt to answer that, let me try to define what I think the base is.

To me, the base is what props up the rest of the party, the solid segment that can always be counted on to vote democratic, to boost the democratic agenda and that has always been in my mind the Black demographic, most specifically Black women. It has mind you not to do with numbers but with consistency, reliability, trust.

To be sure there are other demographics that are also part of the base as they too vote rather consistently for Democrats, the LGBTQIA community and I believe the Jewish community are also consistent voters. There are probably others.

In that light, the base to me is not the same as the fractions within the democratic party, as in who is in it with us. And by that I mean how we self-identify on the left, outside of racial or ethnic identities. Liberals, leftists, progressives, democrats, etc…, one can even include independents in that. To me from those the ones that identify as “democrats” usually consider themselves the base.

Now in reference to the comment that launched this train of thought, let me say, there is no way for elected officials to focus on the various needs of every fraction within it. And perhaps that’s where the friction comes in as everyone feels they are slighted in some way.

So my question to you is: How do you define the base of the democratic party?

For those following on a personal front. Nate seems to be 100% back to normal. Again thanks for all the support moral and otherwise!

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Muriel Vieux – July 28th, 2025 – ©All rights reserved

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