Longview, Washington resident Melinda McCrady spent 20 years working for Democrats in the state Legislature, and for that entire time, her blue-collar, timber-industry hometown elected Democratic representatives to the Legislature, to local office, even to Congress. But by 2016 Democrats were losing ground there, and certainly they lost big in 2021. Republicans now represent Longview, and not necessarily moderate Republicans, either. What happened to the generations of smaller-town working people who supported Democrats? Melinda and I talk about what issues cost Democrats seats, generational change, who makes up the elite and all the rest.