Tag: working class

White working-class anger has been simmering for decades, due to globalization, wage stagnation, and the myth of meritocracy.

"A novel way to take health care etc. away from people AND make it look like there are fewer poor people – change the formula."

He still claims he’s on their side. That’s one of his biggest lies of all.

Never forget that this country has a long history of upper-class whites using racism to their advantage.

Trump didn’t win the working class. The Democrats lost it.

The rage of these workers accounted for the unpredictability of the 2016 election, since they voted in very large numbers for Donald Trump.

What do you need to know – about the new world of work, but also about yourself.

Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.

Nothing in politics is ever final. Democrats could still win back the white working class – putting together a coalition of the working class and poor, of whites, blacks, and Latinos.