U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

i could see post-trump republicans running into some of the same shoals as the tories in the uk, where you’ve got a new coalition of working class votes that you’ve purchased with xenophobia and culture wars, but eventually these voters will ask where’s the beef

December thread?

December 2022: Xenophobic working class warriors seek their beef

if that's the thread title, let's do it

US Politics, December 2022: "They're now the working class party, man."

I know Sherrod Brown is being sarcastic up there, but American political media and thus American political/electoral understanding is so deliberately terrible that even basic terminology doesn’t mean anything. They’re all words with various associated vibes that get tossed around, actual definition or context be damned