The Democratic Party will no more nominate a “Reagan Democrat” than we would put Michelle Obama up for vice president. That ship sailed in 1972.
Probably. That’s certainly true for the Democrat establishment.
There are still some socially conservative union people who register as Democrats. They are convinced that the GOP is only interested in those who have money and would ship their jobs to China or replace them with illegal aliens. As if the Democrats aren’t doing exactly the same thing, with a little communism thrown in for flavor.
Anyway Webb is going to appeal to these people, you can see it from things he’s been saying in the past. The question for him is how many of this sort still exists.