"I read it and I knew instantly where this nation was going. My problem with this bit of academic jargon was not that it was wrong, per se, or that President Biden was somehow responsible for putting it there, but rather that it offered a glimpse of our poisoned class relations..."
"Look at how these powerful people insult our values!, went the plaint, whether they were talking about the theory of evolution or the war on Christmas. This was worth pointing out because working people were once the heart and soul of left-wing parties all over the world."
"My Kansas story was mainly about Republicans, but I also wrote about the way the Democrats were gradually turning away from working people and their concerns."
"Twenty years ago I published a book about politics in my home state of Kansas where white, working-class voters seemed to be drifting into the arms of right-wing movements..."
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