It's difficult to get a man to learn a lesson when his paycheck depends on him not learning it.

So the big argument seems to be that the nebulously defined here "working class", or rather people who explicitly consider themselves such, don't want things that the GOP has been demonizing for decades?

This is just an argument for dems to be more right to appeal to Republican voters. One of the citations is a link to an essay written by the senior editor of the American conservative.

What a worthless article.

I think they do understand. They just are unwilling to acknowledge it because then they would be expected to change, which would upset the corpos and billionaires.

This is willful ignorance

What a strange way to say everyone, politicians have lost touch with people due to the constant infighting and across the aisle bullshit along with the temptation of easy money and no one can take control of the monsters they created.

"For every working class democrat we lose, we'll get 2 or 3 moderate republicans in the suburbs" -Chuck Schumer, 2016

No leader.

We just had governor elections in California and not one candidate was picked by the democrats to lead the charge. They don't care

Don't get? More like don't care

What an absurd, right-wing article. The author clearly doesn't understand it either.

But even where working-class voters nominally agree with a Democratic policy goal, they don’t trust the institution being asked to deliver it – a distrust decades in the making.

This undermines the entire thesis that the Democrats "moved too far left" and that's what alienated the working class. How can it possibly be the case that that's the problem, if the Democrats are distrusted even when they align on policy?

The idea that Democrats are too focused on class, or have been historically, is just ridiculous, and relies on cherry-picking to an absurd degree. A handful of Democrats have recently begun talking about class, which is highly controversial within the party and goes against the party establishment. The article even goes so far as to cherry-pick Graham Platner, who hasn't even been elected! How is it possible that this recent trend in rhetoric could be responsible for "a distrust decades in the making?"

Meanwhile, the author's approach of moving right to appeal to this perceived silent majority has been the accepted, conventional wisdom during the very decades that the distrust was made! If this approach was actually effective, then where are the results to show for it?

They do know, they don't care.

Because stupid. My dog can choose correctly between 1 cookie and 2. These people either chose worse or just noped out.

Oh there you go bringing class into it again . . .

Who is like -- "Trump's gonna turn the planet into a pile of ash, but I can't see voting the other way."

Yea it sucks but if you can't see a substantial difference, wow.