The Way Forward

His predictions were based on increasing minority numbers plus the swing to the left of the college educated. Besides minorities he also assumed Democrats wouldn't drive the working class away as happened in 16, and wrote as much at the time.

Ruy has also been right in predicting our losses of the working class, especially the Hispanic working class.

Ruy along with John Judis who collaborated with him on the Coming Democratic Majority you refer to, have a new book out they collaborated on called "where have all the Democrats gone"