There was been much discussion recently about how the Democrats should view what Ross Douthat cleverly referred to as the “Trumpenproletariat.” From a practical perspective, any attempt to reach out to Reactionary working class white men results in a much larger loss of minority voters during the primaries. In the final analysis, that is the reason the Sanders Revolution had no chance.
Will it ever be possible for the Democrats to win the allegiance of these Reactionaries without losing their core supporters–in other words, to make the Democratic Party a class-based party, rather than a coalition of victims? Maybe, but not for the foreseeable future.