My disagreements with this short, well-written, insightful piece: I think the left is doing fine, and I don't think the Democrats are severed from the working class (who of course still mostly vote Democratic) - what's failed is the dream of linking the left and the working classhttps://twitter.com/nukebarbarian/status/1294006479570182144 …
It depends on what you mean by "need." They might not need the working class to maintain power but they do need it to maintain a viable electoral coalition. The problem comes in when people realize what it means to maintain power without the vote.
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What does it mean?
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It's the end of state legitimacy. We've built up law around the idea that the popular will should restrain the actions of the government in limited ways. When the interests of a major party are incompatible with that baseline assumption, its survival is antagonistic to democracy.
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