At the end of the day
@prollyanotherlurker both sides have their hand in the culture war but it started with Obama in his 2012 re-election calling the people of rural PA Bitter clingers clinging to their guns and bibles.
Like in 2016 who called a good chunk of the american populace a basket of deplorables for not basically being liberal.
At the end of the day Trump in many ways is a monster democrats very much created. He is a monster created by the dems proven failures of leadership and desire to punish the Americans they dont see getting on board with the progressive agenda.
Romney lost in 2012 because he said 47% of americans don't pay taxes and don't matter in the conversation.
Basically the dems have no one to blame but themselves and there needs to be a real period of self reflection and screaming about its Trump's fault for everything wrong with blue cities in blue states isn't the solution. Like it or not hes out of office at the end of 2028. Democrats need to get used to the fact that Trumpism can't be their go to for every single failed policy.
Sure early on it worked in a place like California with the recall election failure of Gavin Newsome due to him arguing its a Trumpist plot. But as more and more failures of dem policy get revealed like Hawaii or LA its going to be much harder to use Trump as a "dont vote for this person they are bad". When your city has gone from first world to third world infrastructure in real time.
It may hurt but Trump has a proverbial mandate of heaven and at this current moment he doesn't have any real challengers to his rule and seems to survive enough assassination attempts that Joseph broz tito must have given him a pair of lucky cufflinks.
Lastly he is basically a lame duck at this point if the midterms are basically a giant version of nothing ever happens ie red states get redder and blue states bluer with purple states being a toss up
We will just see a stonewalled trump administration and lame duck that will spend its last 2 years trying to make america forget about Iran while beautifying DC.
TLDR version - The dems made crucial mistakes attacking the voters, now they have to suffer with Trump until 2028 because of it.