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The Dig: The "Woke Mob" Made Them MAGA?

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What Happened to Working Class People?

Early working class people did not get pushed out of the democratic coalition by anti police protests or people with pronouns. This was the project of the new Democrats led by Bill Clinton. The neoliberalized democratic party alongside American capitalism went into the crisis in the 70s and reconstituting itself in neoliberal form. So there are these moments of crisis that the democratic party has exploited to drive working class people away from the party.

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