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The Wrong Way to Win Back the Working Class

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Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. In its period of exile, the Democratic Party has a lot of decisions to make. One of those decisions concerns its relationship with organized labor. Joe Biden and members of his administration—and, indeed, much of the party’s leadership—believed that forming a historically tight partnership with organized labor would help arrest the party’s decline with the working class. They turned out to be wrong. Working-class voters, even the small and shrinking share of them who belong to…

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What Does the Working Class Really Want?

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Political partisans are always dreaming of final victories. Each election raises the hope of realignment—a convergence of issues and demographics and personalities that will deliver a lock on power to one side or the other. In my lifetime, at least five “permanent” majorities have come and gone. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide triumph over Barry Goldwater in 1964 seemed to ratify the postwar liberal consensus and doom the Republican Party to irrelevance—until, four…

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Congress Swearing-In: A Look At The Incoming Freshman Class – NPR

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Congress Swearing-In: A Look At The Incoming Freshman Class  NPR Congress: House, Senate members sworn in as COVID-19 rages on  USA TODAY 117th Congress: Breaking down the historic numbers  CNN Pelosi re-elected as U.S. House speaker amid political uncertainty  Reuters Narrower majorities set tricky course for new US Congress  KSL.com View Full Coverage on Google News “us congress” – Google News

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