Two historians have said that the Democratic Party was wrong to overlook Bernie Sanders' policies for working class people.

Summary

Historians suggest Democrats might have fared better against Donald Trump by embracing the economic issues championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long pushed for a focus on “bread-and-butter” concerns for working-class voters.

Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies, polls showed Trump was favored on economic issues, particularly among working-class and Hispanic voters.

Historian Leah Wright Rigueur argued that Sanders’ messaging on economic struggles could be key for future Democratic strategies.

Sanders himself criticized the party for “abandoning” the working class, which he said has led to a loss of support across racial lines.

  • generalEdo
    4·
    1 month ago

    Sorry for the dumb question but I really don’t follow politics. What did he mean when he says the dems ditched the working class.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 month ago

      Things like more paternity leave for workers, universal Healthcare that isn’t tied to your job, increased minimum wage. Things like that to help strengthen everyday working people and give them more power and just generally improve their lives.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 month ago

      He means they chose identity politics of worker protections and unions. You buy votes and pandering to business was the wrong purchase. Trump may be a liar but he chose the right lie and sold his base a fallacy but one they can get behind and are unfortunately not educated well enough to know it’s a improbablity to the point of near impossibility.

      Though in this case he might actually be able to do it, though it will mean causing a world war to destroy every other major countries industrial base and choosing the right time to sue for terms.

      • generalEdo
        3·
        1 month ago

        Thank you that clears things up. One more question though, how was trump able to flip almost the blue wall States. I live in WI as an example and we totally flipped from blue to red. I couldn’t imagine Kamala lost that many blue votes, unless there is something else I don’t understand. Even educated people seemed to flip from what I have read.

        • starman2112
          1·
          1 month ago

          All this talk we’re hearing about all of these states shifting right is a little bit misleading. It’s not that anyone who voted Biden in 2020 switched their vote to Trump in '24, it’s that a lot of Biden’s voters in 2020 didn’t vote at all this year, while most of Trump’s did