The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites.

[YoungDemCA]

157. "Party of government" What about organized labor, the grassroots, people of color, LGBT, the poor?

These are all people and communities who have historically been at odds with the US government. I'd personally be very wary of calling the Democratic Party "the party of government" in a country where "the government" is by and large, disliked - if not feared, hated, loathed, and utterly despised (which it is, by many, many people).

And FWIW, this anti-government worldview (or perhaps more accurately in many case, anti-US government as it exists and has existed in practice) thoroughly transcends any division of Left, Right, Center, liberal, conservative, whatever. This anti-government worldview is by no means limited to racist white male Republicans/Trump voters. It's not limited to racists, it's not limited to white people, it's not limited to men, it's not limited to to Republicans, it's not limited to Trump voters, and it's certainly not limited to voters. Not at all!

Perhaps if Democrats did more to cultivate an image of "outsiders", the "outs" of American society, culture, politics, economics, and so on, then they might do better. After all, so much of the Democratic Party's voter base are certainly on the "outs" in those senses; why not EMBRACE that, rather than run away from it?

If tens of millions of American voters and tens of millions of American non-voters already despise the US government on either some abstract meta-level and/or in terms of legitimate grievances against certain things that the US government does and has done, then how does embracing the "party of government" label do Democrats any good? Not a rhetorical question, BTW.