According to our research, 11 % of Trump’s voters can be obtained again. Here is how Dustin Gowastla star-news.press/wp

R.O victory in 2028, Democrats need to restore many working voters, including many Donald Trump voters with blue collars. This requires dispensing with some long myths that have acquired the minds of the Democratic Party. The first is that persuading Trump supporters of the working class is a waste of time. They – this is how the story says – is completely absorbed into Magaland so that there is no profit. Why do you care? On the other hand, some liberals insist that some of these voters are not winning, if only Democrats can make themselves like Trump by adopting tax cuts and A difficult conversation. A third idea, preferred by progressive, says that if the liberals raise the progressive economic A message up to eleven voters with blue collars will come home.

The truth is that none of these strategies is especially useful. Because none of them take interests from the working class, values and positions seriously. Fortunately, new research from Working -class policy center (CWCP) It can help highlight what voters really want voters. Democrats can provide a wild road.

in A report published by Jacobin MagazineWe analyzed the working class responses to 128 questions to survey from academic surveys that extend until 1960. We have discussed in class positions towards major topics such as migration, rights+ rights, civil rights, social standards and economic policies. The result is the most advanced, comprehensive and modern image of the social and economic positions of the available American working class. It provides the best evidence so far on the potential of a specific type of popular policy.

Our work shows that the voters are of the working class, and they were always less advanced than their medium and upper -class counterparts when it comes to social and cultural issues. But the story is more complicated than it seems. It is not the case, for example, that workers with blue collars become more socially conservative. Instead of high reaction, we appear that the positions of the working class have actually drifted slowly towards liberal and culturally liberal positions over decades. However, at the same time, the Americans of the middle and upper layer raced the Uber liberalism, especially in recent years, and they opened the fixed layer gap over social positions. The first step for workers ’retreat is to block that gap.

On the economic front, the situation is different. Most of the working class voters are what we call “economic equality”-and they prefer government interventions to settle the stadium, and they take inequality seriously, and they support programs that increase the economic and social strength of workers. The large majority prefers to raise the minimum wage, import restrictions to protect jobs, increase spending on social security and medical care, by using the federal force to reduce the cost of prescribed medications, expand federal funding for public schools, making it easy to join the union, increasing spending on infrastructure, taxi tax, and even the idea of ensuring work. Fortunately for Democrats, the middle and upper -class voters were drifted to the left in many of these economic issues, where they embraced a more social democratic view. This promises good to develop an economic platform that can appeal to the widest electoral alliance. However, there is an important warning here. While the working -class voters strongly support a set of progressive measures, they are concerned about the large new government programs, questioning new regulations, and on a large scale of spending on social welfare. Its progressive economic progress, which focuses on jobs and supporters of workers, and are not built on cash transfers and extensive social services.

So the working -class voters are more moderate than the middle and upper -class voters who are the basic support of the Democratic Party. However, it is also widely economic equality-in some questions more than their well-learned counterparts. They agree with a populist economic agenda, but not excessive liberal cultural. The way to restore them, and sewing together the majority, then, clear: the adoption of social population. Embrace social and cultural positions of the working class and an economic program that focuses on workers, which promises to raise the minimum wage, protect industrial jobs from free trade, increase infrastructure spending, expand social security, enhance medical care and ensure full labor.

What about the blue -collar voters Trump? After analyzing the wide working class, we tried to find the number of workers who could win it through this type of program. In fact, many of them hold progressive views through a set of economic issues. We found that “more than 20 % of Trump’s working -class voters were supporting the economic policy package that included increasing federal funding for public schools, increasing federal funding for social security, and increasing the minimum wage.” Of course, many of these voters themselves have conservative opinions on social issues in which they will not vote for a democratic benefit. But are there any populists working in the Trump alliance with moderate social positions? there.

11 % of them, precisely.

We found that about 11 % of Trump’s voters maintained a socially moderate and Economically equality views.

Now, this may not look much, but it is an important segment of voters, which includes about 5 % of the total. Democrats cannot win all these voters. But given that these voters of the working class, many of them are concentrated in cases of swing, each one vote has a huge electoral value. In fact, even winning half of these voters – more than 2 % of voters – will be important enough to the impact of national elections in our time from the margins of kind voting. Moreover, Democrats can be placed on the road to a more durable majority in the future.

Looking at all this, we can put in bed different myths around the voters of the working class-that they are fanatical, solid retreating, and cannot be desperate, etc.-instead adopts a strategy that can win. With the correct type of filter (preferably a Working class is oneThe correct type of political messages, Democrats can increase the majority of the working class.

Evidence is clear: it is social populism or statue.

• DUSTIN GuASTELLA is the director of the TEAMSTERS LOCAL 623 operations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a researcher at the Working Politics Center