![]() ![]() The key to understanding this transfiguration is what I have referred to often as the “political class” - most recently in a post headlined, “Parents and the Political Class.” In that post, I suggested that the aims of the political class were antithetical to the interests of the middle class. Increasingly, the Democratic coalition encompasses a highly educated White vanguard allied with the “marginalized” elements of society against the interests, represented by Republicans, of the broad working class and middle class regardless of race or ethnicity. Republicans were seen as representing the interests of the overwhelmingly white middle and moneyed classes. ![]() But, if it is a fair representation of popular sentiment, it lends credence to the idea that American politics is undergoing a seismic realignment, and we’re seeing that realignment here in Virginia.įor most of my life, Democrats were viewed as the party that stood for the interests of the “working man” and minorities, especially Blacks. ![]() That poll might have been an outlier, so I don’t want to make too much of it. Yesterday I noted polling of the race for governor in which Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin showed remarkable strength among minorities - 25% support from Blacks and 55% from Hispanics - along with a shrinking majority of Whites. ![]()
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