Trump himself only happened because Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010 — forming “public private partnerships” to tear open old wounds while screwing the working class on behalf of corporations.
(Of course, that doesn't capture the full story either -- before '92, white blue collar workers were already abandoning the Democrats to support Reagan while he and the Republicans gutted private sector unions.)
Sorry what does that mean? Are all PPPs woke or something? Did US elites ever stand with workers against corporations?
OWS itself fell apart when activists started with race and sex based grievances rather than class solidarity.
Trump is a result of that choice to institutionalize bigotry rather than address class issues — as Trump’s margin in 2016 seems to come down to working class voters uninterested in grievance politics. (And the large Obama -> Trump voter swing, eg, among Millennial men.)
> Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010
Which I already explained in the first part of my statement you selectively edited out.