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“But if the Democrats lost the working class for other reasons, it's much harder. If the working class moved to the Republicans because of the Democrats' positions on climate change, or immigration, or crime, or a host of other cultural signifiers, then you can't get them back by just switching to a pro-tariff anti-finance posture. You have to make some hard changes that will impose pain on the coalition.”
Distractions used by both parties to take voters attention off what matters. Voters haven’t had a chance to choose an “economic left” party in generations. Not since Clinton adopted the Republican Party platform and implemented it.
The Democratic Party lost its way when it abandoned unions and the working class under Clinton’s third way politics. You pretend there has been a working class option within the party but it was only when Bernie ran his insurgent campaign that a real “economic left” option became available, and third way dems have been fighting desperately to kill that baby ever since. To their great dismay the left keeps winning when they can’t cradle kill a candidate.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying culture dems need to do to defeat republicans on “culture signifiers”? Agree to ban trans kids from sports? Execute pedos? Build more coal fired power plants? More $$$ for ICE? What are dems missing here? Or is the problem that dems are biting on these distractions instead of hammering republicans as the party of billionaires and techno-Nazis?
Mamdani won and it looks like his billionaire tax on second homes is going to be state policy. Platner will beat Collin’s now that the geriatric third way is out. Whenever voters are given a chance to elect genuine class warriors, they get excited. And you should be afraid, because the folks who frequent these boards won’t be untouched by a political movement that seriously addresses the economic injustice that is at the heart of what is wrong with our society today.
I don’t see the Democratic Party, or America, surviving if the “economic left” doesn’t soon lead the Democratic Party. Your version of the Democratic Party has nothing to offer the future, Al, except intensifying economic inequality and social decay.
