S12 EP63: Hour 1 - The Democrats Give Up on Empathy
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.8 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 1:10.0 | I want to begin playing off of something we talked about yesterday. |
| 1:13.8 | Tie in several stories together because I'm actually kind of fascinated by this. |
| 1:20.9 | It used to be at one point in this nation's political life, Democrats were presumed to be the party that had the back |
| 1:32.5 | of the working class. |
| 1:33.6 | They tended to be pro-union, pro-blue collar. |
| 1:37.3 | The Republicans were the Episcopalians who were very wealthy and white-collar, worked in suburban, white-collar financial jobs, |
| 1:48.6 | and the roles over time have been reversed, and Democrats still think they have the back of the |
| 1:52.4 | working class, and increasingly they don't. |
| 1:55.3 | And I want to string together several different stories to point this out to you. |
| 2:00.4 | And it goes to Rui Tierra's point about the Democrats seeing a massive shift to the Democrats or to the Republicans rather. |
| 2:09.1 | In fact, there's this story from Axios about a dramatic realignment of swing working class districts towards the GOP. |
| 2:17.7 | Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are now represented by Democrats. |
| 2:22.8 | Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, |
| 2:26.5 | according to median income data provided by Representative Marcy Capture's office. |
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