Nobody's talking about a right or wrong answer. Dems have taken a beating in this demographic and need to figure out how to get through to them. If, as has been reported, nearly a quarter of these voters considered "Critical Race Theory" the most important issue, how exactly are people going to address this?
Part of it may be to try and de-link the typical 'thick, racist voters - why listen to them at all' narrative, with engagement in order to draw in some of that voting population which appears to have drifted away from the Democrats. Potentially in response to what they see as a party who has been captured by what they perceive as a disconnected elite which self-serves more than it reaches out for everyday Americans. Two thirds of the country doesn't have a college degree, yet we see so much effort and political capital put in to trying to offer a Student Loan Forgiveness package to those, effectively a majorly regressive policy which has low popularity numbers amongst anyone except the u30s.
With Trump, ironically we may have a problem for the Democrats now that we've let the rabbit out of the hat when it comes to the contempt for the average rural voter, but more importantly it sent a message to the large amount of the nation who are soft c conservatives who were specifically sought after to vote for support Biden's platform. Nothing too un-American, nothing which sounds too much like communism and a focus on American values and prosperity they could feel in their back pockets. To some degree you've seen R and D voters be quite consistent with support for Biden (or lack of it in the R case), but it has been Independents who have cratered their support and that either galvanizes the BBB mandate or weakens it depends on your perspective.
Were you invested from the left of the party you'd likely see a weakening mandate and looming mid-terms and want to jam through anything possible which pleases your base - to be bold; whereas for the more conservative Democrats who are vulnerable next year they absolutely need a win - and not a watered down win as we saw with the ACA and Obama. Infrastructure is badly needed of course, the US has some truly shocking areas for a country that size - but the question is how many unrelated riders we end up seeing attached to bloat it, for example the bung for already high-cost electric vehicle manufacturers whilst ignoring many of the social security improvements which are highly necessary, and only increasingly so with the current inflationary backdrop. What is for sure is the Democrats need to bring these people back on-side and being seen to understand and legislate in the direction of MAGA in its non-partisan form (which is effectively what BBB is) may be able to bring these floating never-Trumper conservatives back online as vote winners for the next series of cycles.
