Bourdain’s point is that the mainstay of the Democratic Party (roughly half of the voters) were regular working-class-middle-class individuals. And for at least two decades (maybe longer), they were simply cast aside and not courted like all the other ‘special’ groups. So a percentage of this group...maybe 10-percent or more...just walked away.
If Trump does bring jobs and economic growth, this group will permanently stay, and won’t return back to the Democrats.
I wouldn’t worry, the Democrats will sit for at least a decade trying to figure out the Trump magic, and never once try to center their whole program on the middle-class.
And I hope democrats will miss that point and double down on big government liberalism.