Despite Biden’s efforts, working-class voters still don’t trust Democrats – Eduardo Porter/WaPost
“Democrats spent half a century building a brand as globalist shills, moving away from the New Deal paradigm that cemented the allegiance of the White working class despite its disagreements with Democratic positions on abortion, race, guns and other issues of ‘culture.’ It will take more than a single administration’s offer to grow the economy ‘from the middle out and the bottom up‘ to pull those voters back into the fold.”
Both political parties have lavished political messaging on a growing working class instead of prioritizing concrete policies that advance its economic interests. Workers trying to pay their bills want more action, less posturing.
Ending the mass slaughter and starvation in Gaza provides Biden with another opportunity to demonstrate he is not inch-deep in action and flat-screen-wide in rhetoric.

Who Makes Up the Working Class? Neither Party Seems To Know – Newsweek
“Who, first of all, is today’s American working class? The traditional image has been mostly male, doing physical work in goods-production. Fifty years ago in 1973, when Joe Biden was taking his first oath of office and Donald Trump was appearing in court to give his first deposition, this wasn’t entirely wrong. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), back then, 19 million manufacturing workers made up the largest single group among the 70 million American private-sector workers. Along with 6 million farmworkers, construction workers, and miners, goods-producing blue-collar work employed two-fifths of U.S. workers.
“As of 2023, according to BLS, factories, mines, farms, and construction sites employed nearly as many Americans as in 1973—23 million—but most workers are now in blue-collar service industries. The largest group is the 21.5 million men and women in health care and social assistance. Next come 15.6 million retail workers, then 13 million manufacturing workers, with 12.2 million in restaurants and other food service jobs close behind.
“As working-class occupations evolved, so too has the demographic breakdown of this group. Today, 55 percent of America’s working class are white, 13 percent are Black, 23 percent are Hispanic, and 9 percent are other or multiple races. Women make up nearly half of the working class, and 8 percent have disabilities. This breakdown is considerably more diverse than statistics show for college-educated Americans.”