people are feeling. I worked for a liberal nonprofit organization for two decades. I was promoted and worked beside (and had the same title as) colleagues who had multiple advanced degrees from good universities, many from Ivy League universities. Too many of my highly-educated colleagues really thought they knew better what working class people needed than the working class people themselves. They felt they knew better what they needed even though they had never personally struggled themselves to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. As a somewhat self-educated person with roots in the working class, I was sort of a bridge person. I was unafraid to speak up and voice an unpopular opinion in strategy meetings.
All this said, a lot of working class people just voted against their best interests when they voted for Trump. I hope giving the Dems a good beatdown felt good enough to be worth what is coming. But I do get why many working class people are having trouble trusting the Democrats to understand them and why many are angry at us.
It is ironic that they see Trump as a champion of the working class. But I’m beginning to get it. Trump is a master con artist who stepped into a void that the Dems helped create. I think it is essential that we start owning our part in this disaster.
