you may not know many proletarians, but rest assured ol' Dave is here with the inside dopehttps://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1218012496755351555 …
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great evidence here also in the failed bareknuckle proletarian campaigns of 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2004, and 2016
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I'll never forget Hillary Clinton's "Flat Cap Tour" when she drove around the Midwest carrying a pipe wrench and singing Woodie Guthrie songs with Rage Against the Machine
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Replying to @ryanlcooper
I think the key thing here is the very good poli-sci literature showing that it's not so much that voters prefer social issues to economic ones but that when left parties move to the center on economics, social issues become more prominent. True throughout the world.
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makes perfect sense! when both parties conspire to abandon the working class, then naturally cultural grievance (itself fueled by economic dislocation) is all that's left
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That's the dynamic in the USA and Western Europe, among other places.
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