The white middle class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them (opens in new tab)

Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currencyThere is no shortage of interest in the voting patterns of the white working class. Of particular note is how this group – especially since the sea change of the 1960s – finds themselves so consistently on the wrong side of progressive politics. The national preoccupation with the white working class’s affinity for rightwing conservatism has propagated countless , and that are often , and that they turned hard right...