The Corporate Democrat, our newspaper in Santa Rosa, ran an op-ed article with the headline "Working Class Doesn't Want Grand Plans." What followed was an argument that we badly need the working class to become the backbone of the Democratic party again (plus the usual centrist attacks on planners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders). "The alienation of working stiffs elected Donald Trump" etc.
What marks the corporate centrists (aside from their use of terms like "working stiffs," which they probably learned in some Yale graduate course on the songs of the Lincoln Battalion) is their use of "working class" to mean "white working class." There already exists a large cohort of committed working class Democrats--but with these columnists and papers they don't count. They aren't white enough. (The racism is baked in.)
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