E291. Why Trump Resonates With The Working Class - Batya Ungar-Sargon

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Batya Ungar-Sargon stops in to talk about her new book Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women , which focuses on the growing divide between the elite and working class in America. She and Bridget discuss the shift in political parties' attitudes towards the working class, Trump's appeal to blue-collar voters, the impact of education on social and economic status, how Hollywood portrays working-class life, and the concept of "woke" ideology as a smokescreen for economic inequality. They also cover immigration, why the current class divide is more significant than racial or political divisions, the shrinking middle class, how politicians and elites speak to crowds that are made up of people of color, and the abandonment of the working class by both major political parties and the cultural elite. Sponsor Links: The Campaign Managers - https://bit.ly/WiW-TCM PlutoTV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	All right, I'm with Bhatia Ungarsargan again. Welcome back to Watkins, welcome.
0:06.0	Thank you so much for having me again.
0:08.0	It's great to be here.
0:09.0	It's so good.
0:10.0	See you. You've written another book.
0:12.0	I, they're called Second Class how the elites betrayed America's
0:15.4	working men and women a timely a timely title how's it going God, it's going really well.
0:24.0	People seem to be responding to the book.
0:27.0	My favorite response so far has been people posting photos of it
0:30.0	at their work sites, like in a truck like holding it with like work gloves that are like
0:35.1	obviously very well used and loved and obviously that makes me feel really good and like you know the
0:40.0	book had its intended purpose which was not just to be something that
0:43.2	elites toss around between each other but something that really makes people
0:46.3	feel seen and heard. Yeah I guess my first question is when did the elites ever care about the working class?
0:57.0	It's a really good question. It's funny because it used to be that the Democrats really because all of their success was bound up with
1:05.9	labor and the working class. They really did take a very kind of active role in protecting wages. As far back as recently as the
1:16.0	1990s the Democrats were the hardliners on immigration because you know
1:20.8	supply and demand you bring in more workers you're going to lower wages like
1:25.0	it's the most obvious thing in the world and then when they started catering to the
1:29.0	kind of overcredentialed elites and the seems like from your
1:32.7	working class out of the picture then there was really two parties who
1:35.8	just didn't care at all right and it and it seems like from your book that
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