I’m a sensitive guy. There are many battles in politics. Some we see in the election results. Some are ignored by the press in the heat of battle, only to be picked up by the historians.
One such battle is what I call the cultural war. Democrats are the part of the working man. But we have not won a majority of the typical working class white male vote since Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater back in 1964.
For over 40 years, the party of the people, the working man’s party, hasn’t won the hearts of the working man, the factory worker, the blue-collar worker. Jimmy Carter didn’t. Ronald Reagan did. Even Bill Clinton didn’t win the white working class vote, despite being one of the most popular presidents in history.
How does a well educated minority lawyer from Chicago connect with white blue collar workers?
Questions nag me in my dreams. Should I even try to win a cultural war that no white Democratic politician has won in 44 years?
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