Future Left Podcast Ep. 25: White Working Class Woes
Donald Trump's poll numbers may look terrible nationwide, but among working class white males--particularly those without a college education. Meanwhile, the American left takes a very dim view of these Americans, viewing them as the unwashed, dumb, racists that are holding America back away from progress. We look the failed policies of Republicans and Democrats vis a vi this demographic as well as look at recent work that attempts to make the case for more solidarity, and less derision, with the white working class.
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Things we read/mentioned:
Arun Gupta's piece: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-working-class-wounds-hidden-behind-trump-voters-racism-20160630
Connor Kilpatrick in Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
Washington Post story on Gallup's polling of whites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/07/the-incredible-crushing-despair-of-the-white-working-class/
Why does the white working class hate democrats?: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/can-we-talk-heres-why-white-working-class-hates-democrats
The American Conservative's interview with the author of Hillbilly Elegy: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/
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