Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, said that even union sympathizers were surprised at the degree to which the Republicans’ approach “blew up in their faces” and that “the poll numbers of support for collective bargaining for public-sector workers are stronger than even most labor supporters expected.”
Another surprise: the extent to which Democrats, long wary of being accused of “class warfare,” are now more eager than ever to cast the GOP as the party of the privileged.
Democrats aren’t going to win the future, politically, just by being on the right side of social issues. Rich versus poor (and middle-class) is where the rubber hits the road. When Democrats dominated politically, they did so by being the party of the middle-class. And let’s not mince words: overt hostility towards the wealthy was part of it.
That means demonizing the Koch brothers and their ilk…fairly or unfairly. That’s just how it has to be for now.
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