Abandoned the working class and embraced communists and America-haters of all stripes, illegal aliens, and sexual degenerates. Great formula, Dems. Keep it going. In fact, up the ante.
Democrats have thrived on the racial intimidation of whites. Of course, that means the white working class was going to bear the brunt of that.
Over three years ago, Jeff Sessions wrote the seminal piece on the issue that Trump used as his template for victory. It should be required reading for every Rep seeking elective office.
Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself by Jeff Sessions.
Take them for granted?
They’re taking them to the cleaners!
You can’t give everything to the recipient class without taking it from the productive class first.
[However, they cannot do it by “going down the road they’ve been going,” he said, and they will need to choose a nominee “who is good on working-class issues.” ]
In other words, find a Dem candidate that can lie like hell really good.
Oh, and Trump knew exactly what he was doing.
No they didnt abandon the working class.
They were never with them to begin with
The diminution of unions is a reflection of the democrats running aground. Progressives and common sense cannot coexist because they cannot occupy the same space.
Huh? Did income distribution become bimodal with a lump at the low end and another lump at the high end and no one in between? What I have seen is that the middle income has become flatter, with fewer in the middle of the middle income and more in the upper and lower middle class.
The left has embraced the most radical among them.
speaking as a former democrat from a socially conservative working class ohio family, he’s got it right.
Reagan, Perot, Sessions and Bannon also got it right too.
I don’t know exactly when or how Trump figured it out, but he obviously did too.
It’s way past time to put this “Democrats are for the working class ‘’ bs to rest once and for all. The Democrat Party was NEVER for the working class. High taxes, endless, prohibitive regulations, welfare and entitlement programs for lazy bums were and are all part of creating a dependent class of exploited brainwashed voters to keep Democrats in power.
DemocRats now cater to the non-working class.
Bernie Sanders says he comes from the working class. Trouble is he never took a job until he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont when he was in his 39th year. So what kind of work was he doing?
Here’s what he thought of “working people” in 1988: his campaign manager had to pay her payroll taxes out of her own pocket because Bernie categorized her as “self employed” to avoid his campaign having to pick up the tab. Nice guy.
Before his 1990 election to US House, Bernie was busy doing feverish busy work like being an Electoral College presidential elector for Eugene Deberry. Eugene ran against Ronald Reagan in 1980 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Deberry got 75 votes in Vermont that year.
Some working people have been smoked by this awkward clown.
“Working class” is a Marxist term. Democrats abandoned American exceptionalism and rely on VOTES from minorities and others reliant on government, MONEY from narrow special interest groups, and PROPAGANDA from mass/social media and our educational system.
It’s a losing strategy assuming we haven’t completely lost American exceptionalism.
At least he’s honest. He was honestly wrong when he wrote his book with the smug title and now he seems to get it - a little.
"What Hapeened" (sorry Hillary) is that efficiency occurred.
No longer are vast numbers of bodies required to work the land, so the excess population went to the cities.
The lamented 'middle class' either bought BIG machines to work the fields now making them UPPER class, or else went to KC, SLC, Denver, Houston...
Ah yes Thomas Frank. He is the reason I never renewed my subscription to the Wall Street Journal. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. I believe he lived in Hyde Park and was (is?) friends of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. He wrote an article in the WSJ praising them both. I was done with the paper then and there.
Politician as a career should immediately signal to us that we really are dealing with an uncredentialed candidate whose sole claim is that the political establishment likes him and that he has managed ballot success on his way up.
Trump was not and still is not a politician. His resume is about building and succeeding in the business world.
The total destruction of the Democrat Party is the answer that’ll bring peace to the country...