Roundup: July 10, 2025
News and Views Concerning Working-Class Politics
New paper on class dealignment. More on Zohran. What the Left still doesn’t get about Mexican populism. Plus, Dan Osborn is running again…against a billionaire’s son.
Below you’ll find a range of news and views that concern working-class politics, class dealignment, and political strategy. Many are written by research associates and friends of the Center for Working-Class Politics.
Class Dealignment, Multiracial Workers, and Labor's Future After Trump's Reelection
“One reason explaining Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election is the swing of multi-cultural (non-white) voters to Trump.” So argues Professor Victor G. Devinatz in a new paper published in the Labor Studies Journal. Citing research from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Devinatz argues that to fix their blue-collar blues Democrats must “advance a twenty-first century economic agenda that appeals to white and multi-racial working-class voters as a class as the New Deal and Great Society programs did in past decades.” Well put.
Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows That Economic Populism Is a Winner
New Data for Progress polling suggests that Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary is a sign that economic populism is the best strategy to win back the sort of voters Democrats lost in the 2024 election.
Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research’s latest analysis of the 2024 election confirms Trump won with a voter coalition that was more racially and ethnically diverse than in 2020 or 2016.
Further Trump’s support among other groups also increased. His 14-point advantage among non-college voters (56% to 42%) was double his margin in 2016, his advantage among voters in rural areas (69% to Kamala’s 29%), was higher than his margins in 2020 or 2016, and he won more voters than ever before who attend religious services monthly. Unsurprisingly these groups all are more likely to be working and middle class.
What the Left Doesn’t Get About Morena
Many of the left laud Mexico’s Morena party and its recent social democratic reforms, but fail to grasp its holistic approach towards meeting the needs and values of working class voters. While Claudia Sheinbaum has implemented bold and successful universalist programs, she has also sidelined unpopular NGO demands, continued the party’s low tolerance for crime, and embraced working-class values of Catholicism and patriotism.
Dan Osborn to Seek Pete Ricketts’s Nebraska Senate Seat, Stressing Class Issues
The populist steamfitter and former Kellogg strike leader, is running again. He’s set to take on the Republican incumbent, and son of a billionaire, Pete Ricketts. This is a race to watch.
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