#WorkingClass #AmericanDream #PoliticalAlienation #EconomicJustice #ProgressiveMessaging #ClassDealignment #PolicyFailure #CulturalNeglect #MediaBias #VoterDisenchantment

Democrats Learned to Love Class Dealignment (ZNetwork) Right on schedule — and as they had done countless times before — pundits of the center left followed up the Democratic Party’s drubbing with autopsy rep...

#Classdealignment is conscious decisions made by the Democratic Party beginning in the 1980s & enacted in the 1990s and ever since.

The party’s embrace of #neoliberal #economics — including #freetrade #balancedbudgets at the expense of social spending — see #BillClinton, #BarackObama & #JoeBiden.

The Democrats’ Big—and Failed—Bet With civic bonds frayed, the party bet big that delivering on policy would do the trick. It did not. There is difficult work ahead.

At "Democracy," @samrosenfeld.bsky.social & @daschloz.bsky.social have put their fingers on the central challenge before Democrats: reengaging working-class voters through the sort of grassroots organizing that once drove the party.

#ClassDealignment is real.