Who Can Win America’s Politics of Humiliation? nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opi… Bernie Sanders has done this. Putting aside racial resentment, there is a great deal of working class resentment against the political & economic elites on materialist issues. The GOP & Christian Right has
2/ succeeded, in part, by shifting those materialist resentments into non-materialist, culture war issues. But, being screwed over by these elites has been going on since the 1980s. Economic inequalities have grown; social mobility has stagnated; and, business has workers at
3/ mercy with the erosion of union density and worker rights. Trump taps both resentments--class and race. But, guess what? Almost all social surveys & social scientists only collect & analyze, respectively, racial resentments. They overlook or ignore the rage that Americans have
4/ with elites who do not listen to them, do not care about them, and run the system for their benefit. They overlook the documented fact that media coverage of economics is heavily skewed towards the elites. The elites get their policy preferences enacted into law, even if the
5/ majority of Americans disagree with elites on an issue. What Friedman's really telling Biden is: don't be a corporate, inside the Beltway Democrat. Listen to and talk about kitchen table economic issues.
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