Основа поста две статьи
- первая, повествовательная, менее техническая, The Democrats’ Privileged College-Kid Problem
- вторая, более техническая, с более детальной мотивировкой выборных кампаний David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear

The type of young person
- majored, or are majoring, in political science or public policy;
- likely spent a summer or two sweating it out in Washington, D.C.;
- doing research for a grizzled senior fellow at an upper-Massachusetts Avenue think tank;
- might have a faded campaign button from some bygone presidential race dangling from their Fjällräven backpack — maybe for Bernie, or more likely for Pete;

is actually overrepresented within the core of the Democratic Party’s infrastructure.

The problem with this permanent class of young staffers is that they tend to hold views that are
- both more liberal and
- more ideologically motivated
than the views of the coveted median voter,
and yet they yield a significant amount of influence over the party’s messaging and policy decisions.

As a result, Democrats end up spending a lot of time talking about issues that matter to college-educated liberals but not to the multiracial bloc of moderate voters that the party needs to win over to secure governing majorities in Washington.

young party staffers are far to the left of the median Democratic voters on relatively uncontroversial, bread-and-butter Democratic priorities like combatting income inequality or addressing climate change.

the highly-educated young liberals are leading Democrats down a path toward political obscurity.
Unfortunately for Democrats, this cadre of young people isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon.

highly educated people have too much power and too much influence.


Применение к Канаде (JD)
1. Роль молодого партийного функционера играет Трюдо.
2. Лидеры остальных партий пытаются ему подражать.
3. Медианный канадский избиратель идентифицирует себя с молодым партийным функционером.


Применение к российской и белорусской оппозиции (JD)
1. Роль молодого партийного (оппозиционного, в данном случае) функционера играет сторонник Ельцина/Шушкевича начала 90-ых.
2. Медианный российский/белорусский избиратель представления не имеет, что будет если такой молодой партийный функционер придёт к власти.