Opinion: The debate around Democrats and working-class whites is deeply confused
"Middle Class Joe" and"Mayor Pete." By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 8 at 4:21 PM We keep reading it again and again: One of the more “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates argues that the eventual nominee must do better in reaching out to working-class whites than Hillary Clinton did.
Some of the Democratic candidates are arguing that this is an imperative. Here’s how the AP characterizes this: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said her no-frills style has delivered white Midwestern voters before. … Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has said his economic populism will bring rural white voters back to the Democratic fold.
We are constantly told that Trump won in 2016 by getting to Clinton’s left on economic issues, by vowing to “drain the swamp” of elite corruption, to take on plutocrats who rig the economy, and to go after the hedge funders who pay lower taxes on investment income. My point is not to argue that Sanders or Warren would fare better than Biden and Klobuchar. It’s simply to say that there’s no basis for assuming that the latter would do better than the former — particularly if you take the Official Pundit and Moderate Democrat Narrative of Trump’s win seriously.
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