Writing in The Atlantic, Joan C. Williams shows how class anger for working-class white people is the impetus for supporting our current President. The opposing party has had huge messaging problems with white working-class people.
Yesterday I was talking to my wife about a message that could unite the division between "Whole Foods and Piggly Wiggly America," and my wife told me it's not that complicated:
Both parties, she said, should be united in the way the 1% is redistributing the money in their favor while leaving the Majority Bottom in the dust. Why can't that be a unifying message?
Williams correctly observes that if opponents to this current President think they can wait for working-class whites to die off, they will have to wait too long, to at least 2045:
As the United States moves toward becoming a majority-minority nation, some on the left have come to believe that Democrats will be rescued by demography—that the party can ignore the white working class and focus instead on communities of color and on young people and single women of all races. This is wishful thinking. First, the U.S. won’t be majority-minority until about 2045. If you think Democrats—or the country—can survive this degree of political chaos for a quarter century, I don’t know what to tell you.
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