Who Speaks for Working-Class Americans?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
They used to embrace the Democratic Party. This year, those voters comprises the core of Donald Trump’s support. George Packer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss why the Bill and Hillary Clinton catalyze the anger of the white working class, and whether a Clinton administration could win them back.
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| 1:11.9 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.6 | It's Thursday, October 27th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. |
| 1:23.3 | In 2000, Bill Clinton celebrated the prosperity of the 1990s in his final State of the Union address. |
| 1:30.3 | We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. |
| 1:35.3 | Never before has our nation enjoyed at once so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal |
| 1:47.8 | crisis and so few external threats? Never before have we had such a blessed opportunity |
| 1:55.1 | and therefore such a profound obligation to build the more perfect union of our founder's dreams. |
| 2:06.9 | Sixteen years later, during Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, |
| 2:13.3 | she seemed to acknowledge that her husband's policies had left white working class voters behind. |
| 2:19.0 | We're still facing deep-seated problems that develop long before the recession and have stayed |
| 2:25.8 | with us through the recovery. I've gone around the country talking to working families, and I've heard |
| 2:32.8 | from many who feel like the economy sure isn't |
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