Politics in America White working class men want “steady, stable, full-time jobs that deliver a solid middle-class life” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 November 2016 When progressives talk about the working class, typically they mean the poor. But the...
Politics in America “For many blue-collar men, all they’re asking for is basic human dignity (male varietal)” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 November 2016 Hillary Clinton…epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the...
Politics in America “One little-known element of that gap is that the white working class resents professionals but admires the rich” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 November 2016 For months, the only thing that’s surprised me about Donald Trump is my friends’...
Races in America “’Working class’…once suggested productivity and sturdiness. Now it means downwardly mobile, poor, even pathological” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2016 …the “white working class.” At first, the term sounds more neutral than its predecessors—a...
Politics in America, Races in America “Trump’s core voters are revealed, by poll after poll, to be members of the white working class” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 November 2016 Americans like Mark Frisbie have no foundation to stand on; they’re unorganized, unheard, unspoken...