Understanding Class Dealignment

This essay offers a detailed description of the contours and political stakes of the debate around working-class dealignment from the Democratic Party. It shows that the phenomenon is real and explains why it matters, surveys prominent accounts of how working-class drift can be addressed, and offers a set of tentative paths forward.
A battle is raging among US progressives over how to understand the political attitudes and strategic significance of the working class in American politics. Have workers really abandoned the Democratic [...]