The article argues that Democrats will avoid the usual “Big Tent Disease” after taking power in January because record economic inequality and a more combative Trump administration will keep the party united.

Wages and salaries have fallen to 43 percent of gross domestic income—the lowest since 1929—while corporate profits hit 12.4 percent, giving newly elected Democrats a shared populist target of billionaires and corporate greed.

Trump’s choice of attack-oriented figures such as Stephen Miller, Jim Jordan and Pete Hegseth, plus threats against congressional oversight, is expected to further solidify Democratic cohesion rather than invite compromise.

Democrats usually suffer Big Tent Disease. To win, they put together such large coalitions of voters — working class, middle class, Black people, Latinos, women, young people, moderates, liberals — that once they’re in office, intra-party feuds often threaten their agenda.

Will it happen again when they take power in January? I don’t think so. Two outside forces will keep Democrats glued together.

The first is raging economic inequality.

Wages and salaries have now fallen to 43 percent of the nation’s gross domestic income, the lowest since 1929. By contrast, corporate profits have climbed to a record high of 12.4 percent. Those profits go to the owners of corporations — top executives and investors whose incomes depend largely on shares of stock.

These trends are........

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