On cursory examination it might appear that there is a conflict between the "science" of the Democrats and the "religion" of the Trump base. Although religion has served in the past to be a check on the power of authorities, that is, to prevent them from abusing their power, the Trump base does nothing of the sort. With the Trump base the power of authorities is their "religion." Theirs would be a "theocracy" if the West had such thing. Instead they should be described as nationalists. Compared to them even theocratic Arabs appear more humanly religious, and U.S. Democrats too.
As originally imagined in this country the party now called the Democrats was intended to be a check on the power of the authority of the other party. They even called themselves "Anti-" Federalists for a time. These days their broad power to tax and redistribute wealth has instead become the authority that needs to be held in check. At least in the opinions of many it does appear. That is how the party originally for a strong central government switched sides and is now for smaller government.
The blind nationalism of Donald Trump is not likely to succeed. Rather than being a check on redistributionist power it represents its own abuses of power. The schooling it rejects is, not always, but usually is, good schooling. Yet it would be a terrible mistake of Democrats to think they have the good schooling or science to take that place. Most of what they believe is science is not. They already lost running on bad science.
Mayoral candidate for New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is an illustration of what a ridiculous view of science Democrats have. Mamdani describes himself as a Democratic Socialist. Someone needs to explain to him that 8 million people, virtually zero of whom are farmers, cannot be socialists. In order to succeed he will need more farmers. Former South Vietnam was stubbornly communistic, but they are mostly farmers. In contrast capitalist Taiwan has a variety of industries in addition to farming.
People who grew up sitting in front of a TV often believe these days they are scientific and that they understand the world. Television by itself doesn't do that for people. Science is great on lab mice and cockroaches. Using science on people is fraught with difficulties. You might have noticed how politicized data has become lately and good readings are nearly impossible. That highlights how foolish it is to expect science to save the country. Being on the political left doesn't require much science, but it does require knowing a source of food. Farmers in the United States tend to be opposed to the political left or to abuses of power whether right or left.
For many people New York City quit being the center of the world when Johnny Carson moved base of The Tonight Show from New York to California. When Ed Sullivan was on television New York City was without a doubt an important center of several arts. These days New York City still has Broadway theater and some important media centers, but it will probably never be the center it once was even after Jimmy Fallon brought The Tonight Show back to New York City in 2014.