upheaval: "cares about people like me"

[beej]

this is an interesting opinion piece about the changes we are witnessing in politics today.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-deal-politics-turned-upside-down

Another such change seems in train. Those who have been following political polling for half a century have long noticed Democrats' advantage as the party that "cares about people like me." That edge probably goes farther back, perhaps to 1935, when George Gallup conducted his first random sampling poll.

That was in the midst of the New Deal, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Democrats were sponsoring high taxes on the rich to pay for programs to help the jobless and enacting Social Security and minimum wages. Some Republicans did vote for these programs, but others opposed them as overly expensive or morally corrosive.

The political conventional wisdom that developed was that Democrats' greater support of economic redistribution gave them, regardless of other issues, an inevitable advantage over Republicans on "cares about people like me."

Now, nearly 90 years after that conventional wisdom was established, it no longer seems to prevail. In the frequent polling conducted by Morning Consult, Republicans trail Democrats on "cares about people like me" by a statistically insignificant 41% to 39%.

Since 2016, Democrats' advantages on "cares about poor Americans" has shrunk from 20% to 11% and on "cares about middle class Americans" from 14% to 4%.

I was struck by the fact that Senator Hawley, a staunch conservative, went and spoke to the striking UAW pickett lines in Wentzville, MO last week. I believe Trump did as well in Michigan.

There are major changes happening in the parties right now. I have long believed that a Pro-life, pro-labor  3rd party could be a real trouble to both republicans and democrats.

[mkd]

'MAGA' is that party. Don't believe me, just look at the milk-toast resistance god-king Trump gets with the Rinos.