How Democrats Lost the Working Class

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : He thought Trump would do better on inflation, and he appreciated the GOP's stance on abortion, gender, and guns.
52% : Other polling shows that Trump commanded a 26-point lead among white voters without a college degree in union homes, up nine points since 2020.
50% : The Affordable Care Act lives on; Medicare and Social Security remain untouched.
50% : The Brahmin left tends to be more supportive of redistribution than the working class, which tends to prefer something that economists call "predistribution": high minimum wages rather than welfare payments, pro-union policies rather than refundable tax credits, antitrust measures rather than food stamps.
47% : They consistently said they trusted Trump to do better on the issue of inflation.
45% : When I talked with voters during the campaign, I would often ask them what they thought Harris and Trump would do once in office.
45% : Still, pollsters and political scientists told me, the party needs to change.
42% : Trump signed a stimulus bill twice as large as Obama's.
42% : People tended to give specific answers for Trump, whether they themselves were a Democrat or a Republican.
38% : In contrast, Donald Trump has supported "right to work" laws, attempted to gut federal worker protections, and named union busters to lead the Department of Labor and the NLRB.
36% : The Democrats' character-based vilification of Trump failed to connect for many voters who liked the guy and supported his policies.
25% : A Democratic president, Bill Clinton, signed NAFTA, which cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the heartland and suppressed wages.

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