The Fragile Truce Between the Working Class and the Woke Left Democrats have power now. They shouldn’t waste it on culture wars. {NY Times opinion}

The New York Times ^ | 12th November 2026 | Christien Rosen

[Cronos]

Liu: Up until the ’70s, the Democratic Party was dominated by working-class people in unions — non-college-educated people.

By ’77, they saw the complete takeover of the Democratic Party elite by what conservatives called the new class. I think Spiro Agnew called them the “nattering nabobs of negativism.”

The conservatives understood that this class was taking power and was creating a huge rift between what the Democratic Party had once represented and what it was now going to represent. You could make a caricature of the Berkeley-to-Cambridge continuum.

In my very, very wealthy neighborhood in Orange County, we see signs in the yards: In this house we believe in science. In this house, we do this, this and this.

And there’s a lot of posturing that has to do with what I wrote about in “Virtue Hoarders,” which proclaims, on the consumerist side of things, more progressive consumerist practices that average Americans can’t afford.

All of the sociological studies that have been done by people I really admire, like Jennifer Silva, have shown that the working-class family is completely destroyed in America. If you’re born into a working-class milieu of whatever race, you have more chance of being born out of wedlock than being born to married parents. The rate of divorce is going up in working-class circles in America.

These people who are preaching experimentation and all this other stuff — college-educated women have a much smaller chance of being divorced right now than ever before. College-educated people have very stable relationships.

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[Cronos]

Don't write the GOP off yet. The Republicans need to focus on the "little people" and target cost of living rises, jobs, opportunities to rise etc.

if the D's focus purely on the "progressive" issues or even visually seem to do so, that is the opening for the Rs

[exnavy]

Both parties need to focus on liberty for the people, the ones who work and pay taxes. Do what government is for. Protect, from invasion, we the people.

[FLT-bird]

As if the Wokesters could EVER manage to restrain themselves and be reasonable for even 5 minutes. :rolleyes: These people absolutely WILL immediately start trying to grab all the guns, trans the kids, open the borders, push dudes in dresses invading female spaces, sacrifice the economy to Gaia, push DEI, express undying hatred for men in general and White men in particular, impose censorship, conduct lawfare against their political opponents, etc etc.

"*Affordability*? Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! You bought it suckers! We're in power now. That means you endorsed our whole agenda and we'll do our utmost to impose it all....what's that??? The working class doesn't like or support any of this? Tough! We hate the working class."

The above is exactly what they're going to do. They can't help themselves.

[Cronos]

So then the GOP should have clear plans and actions and voice these