1. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again," Hillary Clinton, 2008. IOW: this shit is pervasive in America & not just in far left or far right
2. I should maybe save this for my Hofstadter piece but Chait is using the standard Hofstadterian technique of identify stuff that is pervasive in America & shared by centrist elite only with extreme left and right. This is very bad framework.
3. If you want to understand why America has such a miserly welfare state, you have to understand that the equation of hardwork with whiteness is pervasive, including liberal elites that formed social system. Here's covers for a liberal magazine both Chait & I worked for 
