I'm a day late but whatever. Half of this article seems to refer to working-class voters and white working-class voters interchangeably. They are not one in the same. One is a subgroup of the other that is often at odds with the rest of the group so they cannot be used as interchangeable terms. The focus on white working-class voters specifically rather than working-class voters more generally is the normal beef certain Dems, including myself, have and conflating the terms doesn't help that.
Secondly, of course the solution is to screw another portion of the Dem coalition by casting doubt on an already inadequate push to help with climate change by smoothing the transition to EVs. Why not propose a policy FDR really would have approved of like raising the minimum wage or overriding state level right to work laws to allow the unions to spread? The latter would even have the knock on effect of forcing the red states to compete on education, infrastructure, and healthcare support rather than just a race to the bottom on taxes, wages, and worker rights.
TL;DR - Why are white working-class people the only focus when they are usually at odds with the rest of the working class at large and why are the proposed solutions to this Dem "working-class" problem always Republican Lite rather than historical Dem solutions?
I'm a day late but whatever. Half of this article seems to refer to working-class voters and white working-class voters interchangeably. They are not one in the same. One is a subgroup of the other that is often at odds with the rest of the group so they cannot be used as interchangeable terms. The focus on white working-class voters specifically rather than working-class voters more generally is the normal beef certain Dems, including myself, have and conflating the terms doesn't help that.
Secondly, of course the solution is to screw another portion of the Dem coalition by casting doubt on an already inadequate push to help with climate change by smoothing the transition to EVs. Why not propose a policy FDR really would have approved of like raising the minimum wage or overriding state level right to work laws to allow the unions to spread? The latter would even have the knock on effect of forcing the red states to compete on education, infrastructure, and healthcare support rather than just a race to the bottom on taxes, wages, and worker rights.
TL;DR - Why are white working-class people the only focus when they are usually at odds with the rest of the working class at large and why are the proposed solutions to this Dem "working-class" problem always Republican Lite rather than historical Dem solutions?