What an Arizona race says about Democrats’ political energy in suburbs

The newly created 1st Congressional District in Arizona displays the tectonic shifts underway in American politics.

Held now by Republican David Schweikert, serving his seventh time period in Congress, it’s a spot of affluence, with luxurious houses and well-manicured landscapes all through Scottsdale, Cave Creek, Paradise Valley and components of north Phoenix.

These comfortable suburbs have been as soon as the stronghold of Arizona Republicans, however no extra. With the appearance of Donald Trump and the start of a brand new political period in America, the rich suburbs have been transferring towards the Democrats.

We’re witnessing the “migration of the educated and prosperous to the Democrats” whereas the “white working class and extra just lately a minority of the non-white working class” migrate to the Republicans, as the author Michael Lind, a columnist for UnHerd and Pill magazines, places it.