New research shows that a class gap on the left threatens any winning coalition \u2013 but there are ways to address it<\/p>\n
Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a governing coalition. Yet, in many ways, this divide obscures a much bigger fault line: the class divide. The fact is, many of the Democratic party\u2019s ideological factions consist almost exclusively of college-educated professionals. As a result, the priorities of this class tend to dominate the party\u2019s appeals. The priorities of working-class voters, meanwhile, are an afterthought.<\/p>\n
A new report from Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working Class Politics, and Joan Williams, author of Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, looks at ways to bridge the yawning class divide that threatens the possibility of forming a winning coalition.<\/p>\n
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