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Why Democrats Despise the Working Class
Why Democrats Despise the Working Class
Victor Davis Hanson doesn’t sugarcoat it. He says Democrats act like they despise the working class. And he’s right to call it out.
Start with the tone-deaf moments. Gavin Newsom’s wife joked about taking their kids down South to see “real bigotry.” Late-night hosts mock a congressman’s plumbing past. Small things, maybe. But they add up. They show disdain, not solidarity.
Hanson points to the Democrats’ post-2024 headache. They lost big. They ran internal reviews. The result wasn’t pretty. A large chunk of middle- and working-class voters — especially white working-class voters — felt pushed aside. And those voters still turn out in huge numbers.
Why the alienation? Hanson names a stack of issues: radical green plans, open borders, identity-driven DEI, men in women’s sports, and huge entitlement programs riddled with fraud. To many people, these aren’t the issues of everyday life. They’re ideology. They don’t feel like solutions. They feel like judgment.
So Democrats try to patch it. They parade a lobsterman or grow a beard on a mayor and call it empathy. They pull out props. But props don’t fix real distrust. You can’t Photoshop sincerity.
Here’s the kicker: Hanson says this is why President Donald Trump still scares them. He’s a billionaire, yes. But he talks like he gets the working class. That matters. Folks don’t just vote on policy. They vote on who feels like them.
This isn’t subtle. It’s direct. The left’s cultural arrogance has consequences. You can lecture people about virtue signaling, or you can actually solve local problems — jobs, schools, safety. One wins votes. The other loses them.
Expect more fights over tone, not just policy. Until the Democrats stop treating working-class people like a costume to wear on TV, Hanson says the gap will stay wide. They can try to look the part. But voters see through the act.