Of course there are various political policies that could have improved Mike's life in several ways, but whether they would have changed the ultimate outcome, who knows. "He had stopped trying to meet a woman by his late thirties." I'm not saying there weren't any economic aspects to that, but the author doesn't explain exactly how his partisan political analysis is relevant to that, how either party would have or could have helped. There's no obvious, conclusive logical inference from Democrats forgetting about the working class — which may be true! — to Mike's loneliness.