You Can’t Sit with Us: How Mean Girl Politics Fractured the Democratic Coalition

A Decade of Exclusion, Alienation, and the Rise of a New Political Majority

In the film Mean Girls Regina George’s Plastics ruled North Shore High with cliquish exclusion and performative morality—a blueprint for how the Democratic Party alienated working-class voters, minorities, men and the majority.

Because of the times we live in, it must be noted that not all Democratic women are Mean Girls. Most aren’t. But many, many mea…