Beyond Policy: Why Democrats Need to Show White Working-Class Voters Some Respect
17th January 2020
Yeah, like that’s ever going to happen.
When I heard Hillary Clinton refer to half of Trump supporters as “deplorables” during her 2016 presidential campaign, I knew she would lose. Her comment exemplified the arrogant, elitist, dismissive attitudes that make many white working-class voters suspicious of the Democratic Party. Four years later, as Democrats try to figure out how to beat one of the least popular Republican presidents ever, they’re still trying to get over their deplorables problem.
The problem is that the new clerisy that runs the Democratic Party has no experience with, nor any sympathy for, working-class people, particularly working-class white people. This is an amazing change for the party that pretends to be the champion of ‘working families’.