The Democratic Party's Class Gap Threatens Winning Coalition

The Democratic party needs to do more than represent wealthy progressives | Dustin Guastella

New research shows that a class gap on the left threatens any winning coalition – but there are ways to address it Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a governing coalition. Yet, in many ways, this divide obscures a much bigger fault line: the class divide. The fact is, many of the Democratic party’s ideological factions consist almost exclusively of college-educated professionals. As a r...

By Dustin Guastella