And once again you demonstrate that you understand something that the people inside the blue bubble seem incapable of. It is impossible to care about an existential crisis when you have to deal with more 'maudlin' ones like paying your phone bill instead of your light bill this month.

Progressives are convinced that everybody should care about these great issues. And you're spot on: you can care about something as much as you can afford. Thos who say its not the money, it's the principle usually HAVE money.

The left wing of the party continued to what it has done since Trump came along and frankly for decades before that: they chose to ignore the working class voter in favor of trying to speak to all of the higher parts of its constituency. That in the previous election Democrats carried less than 40 percent of the working class voters ( at their peak they carrying 60 to 65 percent) and no doubt carried even less this time around is absolutely the reason the Democrats lost this year and will continue to do so. And for the record, if you argue that the GOP is the party of corporate billionaires and George Clooney writes an op-ed saying that he is qualified to speak on presidential politics BECAUSE HE RAISES MONEY FOR DEMOCRATS, then you've made it very clear what side you are on. Trump isn't going to do anything for the working class, I agree, but the Democrats have made it clear for a very long time that the working class is someone's who interest they have increasingly consider low priority. Ever since the Vietnam War, the Democratic Party has been increasingly pushing aside the working class voter to the Republicans. The left tries to frame in terms of racism - and now they use the term MAAG - but it's just an extension of how the educated left has increasingly no use for the working class.

I remain unconvinced the left will realize this any time soon: right now, they are blaming the usual suspects - social media, disinformation, racism and the usual argument of 'WHy would any sane person vote Trump?" This is code for "the smart people are voting democrat and the nation just proved its getting dumber." As long as the Democrats continue to let the left frame the debate of electoral politics as purely on social justice and moral imperatives rather than on the economic realities for America they will continue to lose. The left's argument for economic inequality always comes down to making the rich pay their fair share or raising the minimum wage or cancelling student debt. How any of this is supposed to help a person in Tennesse who never graduated college is JUST above the poverty line and is out of work is something that will never be the priority of the left who in truth, really do look down on the working class with the same contempt the right does. The only difference is, the GOP will at least show up. The left increasingly feels they have no obligation to and that they've made their bed. Make no mistake they want economic equality and advaances - but it's always for thee and not for me.