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Home Front: Politix
The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter
2026-07-24
[Townhall] The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot's third-party candidacy.

Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the electorate and registers and votes at much higher rates than non-white groups.

Apparently, during the Biden-era influx of 10 million illegal aliens, Democrats really believed their own slogans about an "Emerging Democratic Majority" and how "Demography is destiny." They therefore confidently abandoned most efforts to recruit white working-class voters.

In 2017, the then-neocon—and now leftist Zohran Mamdani supporter—Bill Kristol
…2nd gen. conservative intellectual— his father was, among other things, involved with Commentary Magazine after outgrowing youthful adventures as a Trotskyite. Bill eventually ran The Weekly Standard into the ground, then suckered a number of NeverTrump donors into financing The Bulwark, which is so conservative it advised its several dozen readers to vote for Joe Biden in 2020, and subsequently he formally identified himself as a former Republican…
(who has advocated abolishing ICE altogether) spoke of the need to open the borders to replace the "lazy" American worker: "Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don't you want to get new Americans in?"
Ugh. But at least he condescendingly approves of President Trump’s war against Iran — stopped clock, and all that.
Related:
Bill Kristol 11/05/2025 Democrat Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City
Bill Kristol 11/05/2025 Abigail Spanberger (D) have won 5% of the governor's race in Virginia
Bill Kristol 11/03/2025 Wait. What? What does UK’s MP Jeremy Corbyn have to do with NYC?

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