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**NOVEMBER 08, 2022**
Lessons of the Midterms
BY ROBERT KUTTNER
Democrats are belatedly addressing the concerns of working families.
Will it come too late?
PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP PHOTO
People attend a campaign rally for Pennsylvania's Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro and Democratic Senate candidate
John Fetterman, November 5, 2022, in Philadelphia.
We will soon know whether the Democrats took the drubbing that so many
commentators have been forecasting, or whether the pundits were stuck in
their own echo chamber, and Democrats do better than predicted. But even
if the Democrats do manage to hold onto one or even both houses of
Congress, it's important to learn the right lessons.
One lesson is much bigger than the 2022 midterms: This entire period of
American life, from the 1980s on, and intensifying after 2016, has been
a huge missed opportunity that will not be reversed in a single election
cycle.
The Democrats, after all, are allegedly the party of working people. The
past several decades have been an era when working people have been
suffering one assault after another on their living standards, their
economic security, their future horizons, and the life prospects for
their children and grandchildren.
This should have been a golden age for ordinary people flocking to the
banner of Democrats as their champions, against a corporate class that
has grown ever more rapacious at the expense of the common American.
Instead, it was a time when working-class voters deserted Democrats for
a Republican Party that slavishly favors corporations and bankers over
workers. And this was happening well before Donald Trump used crude
racism and hyper-nationalism to divert popular frustrations from
pocketbook issues.
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