The Democrats need to stop fetishizing conservative white working class people. How many times are these fundamentally right-wing voters gonna snatch the football away before the left learns their lesson?
The problem with the democrats right now is that forming a coalition of minorities and college educated whites isn't feasible. They have to broaden their base somehow.
Neoliberals like Lief don't want to have the party actually appeal to working people.
The working-class voted against Donald Trump by nearly double digits IIRC. The party does "appeal to working people."
I think you meant white working people. A very large amount of "working people" aren't white. The working class voted against Trump. It was the white working class that voted for him.
The white working class had a huge swing to Trump but minority working class people's needs are being ignored too, and I imagine they swung to Trump by a fair amount, too.
According to exit polls, every ethnicity swung towards Trump this election.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html
"Swung towards Trump" in the sense that the Trump-Clinton margin beat the Romney-Obama margin, not that Trump actually got a bigger percentage of the vote than Romney. Trump of course won a smaller percentage of the vote than Romney overall because of a larger 3rd party vote, and gained with some demographics over Romney while dropping among others.
