An effective fight against the president-elect requires a struggle that takes the frustrations of working-class voters seriously<\/p>\n
As Donald Trump<\/a> prepares for his inauguration, many have begun to debate how best to build a committed political opposition. Instead of reviving the 2016 era #resistance<\/a> \u2013 which was big on spectacle and short on substance \u2013 those on the left would do well to take seriously the frustrations of working-class voters and craft a strategy accordingly.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s victory can credibly be read as a class revolt. Blue-collar voters \u2013 Black, white, Latino and Asian, in rural and urban areas alike \u2013 gave a big middle finger to the progressive professional class elite. Kamala Harris<\/a> represented the epitome of a Democratic party that has become increasingly dominated by affluent and educated voters (and funded by even wealthier donors). Her ascension itself represented the transformation of the \u201cparty of the people\u201d into an aristocratic private club, liberal elites were so terrified of the hoi polloi <\/em>that they ensured not one ordinary person would vote on her nomination to lead the Democratic party into battle. Are we shocked that the same voters failed to show-up on the battlefield? Hardly.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An effective fight against the president-elect requires a struggle that takes the frustrations of working-class voters seriously As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, many have begun to debate how best to build a committed political opposition. Instead of reviving the 2016 era #resistance \u2013 which was big on spectacle and short on substance \u2013 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}