Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back.
The Intercept Briefing
The Intercept
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
At a recent rally at U.S. Steel in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump stood in front of a row of workers in hard hats and safety vests and proclaimed, “We're right now on the verge of passing the largest working class tax cuts in American history.” He framed his “Big Beautiful Bill” — a massive tax cut for the wealthy — as a blue-collar blessing.
The sleight of hand is classic Trump, and what makes his appeal to voters enduring. “The Republican Party is building the multiracial working class coalition that the Democrats have always said that they want to build,” says David Sirota, founder of The Lever and a former Bernie Sanders speechwriter.
This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Jordan Uhl speaks to Sirota and politics reporter Jessica Washington about how Trump has successfully used culture-war grievances to win over working-class voters, and why the Democratic Party continues to hemorrhage support.
The episode also features Ilyse Hogue, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the co-creator of a new $20 million project called Speaking With American Men, or SAM. The initiative aims to understand — and win back — young male voters who’ve drifted to the right. “ A lot of what we heard from people is that they feel invisible to the Democratic coalition,” she says.
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Intercept briefing. I'm Jordan Yule. |
| 0:39.3 | We're right now on the verge of passing the largest working-class tax cuts in American history. |
| 0:45.8 | We've got to get that beautiful, big bill, beautiful, beautiful as it is. |
| 0:51.9 | We've got to get it past the Senate. |
| 0:57.2 | In true Donald Trump fashion, speaking at a U.S. steel rally in Pennsylvania behind a backdrop of workers in safety vests and hard hats. |
| 1:05.4 | He framed his mega wish list bill as a gift to the working class. The bill would extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts |
| 1:13.7 | and increase the federal deficit by $2.4 trillion over 10 years. This is according to the Congressional |
| 1:20.9 | Budget Office or CBO. Senate Republicans aim to make the tax cut permanent. What does this actually mean? Well, households |
| 1:30.2 | earning $50,000 or less would get a $300 tax cut. For those earning a million or more, that jumps up to |
| 1:39.4 | about $90,000 a year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. |
| 1:45.5 | Not to mention, the huge tax breaks it also gives to businesses in large corporations. |
| 1:51.9 | The Republican championed bill will also cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid and |
| 1:56.7 | SNAP and increase the number of uninsured to 10.9 million, all in favor of the wealthy. |
| 2:05.1 | Meanwhile, Trump's tariff war is projected to slow down the economy and drive up inflation. |
| 2:12.8 | Given all of this and the last few months of the Trump administration executing its full-on assault |
| 2:19.2 | on democracy, immigrants, and speech, how is it that Trump still remains relatively popular? |
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