[C19fan]

Increasingly, the Democratic Party features what social scientists call an hourglass structure, with a smattering of elites at the top and a vast working class on the bottom. It is those on the top who drive policy, and their interests don’t always coincide with the party’s longtime base.

Seems straight out of Banana Republics.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Increasingly, the Democratic Party features what social scientists call an hourglass structure, with a smattering of elites at the top and a vast working class on the bottom.

They mean a vast non-working class - of net benefit recipients. Single mothers. Indebted liberal arts students. University lecturers who can't get tenure. Professional race baiters. Gang members and their "civilian" affiliates. Misguided suburban soccer moms who think they are voting to "Save Our Schools." Ugly young men living in their parents' basements and posting on Daily Kos and DU all day. And plenty of illegals to vote in the names of the dead and relocated they are constantly suing to keep from being purged from the databases.

The working class largely abandoned the Democrats in 2016. It's telling that they are not making any significant attempts to win them back, but are instead doubling down on the Marxist message and seeking to increase the number of the unemployable dispossessed under their control.

[catnipman]

“Increasingly, the Democratic Party features what social scientists call an hourglass structure, with a smattering of elites at the top and a vast working class on the bottom. It is those on the top who drive policy, and their interests don’t always coincide with the party’s longtime base.”

EXACTLY like the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin ... that is, until Donald Trump came along and easily vanquished the creaky, crumbling, neocon, “true conservatives” ...