As tumultuous as the stock market’s performance has been over the last few weeks, it’s not the public’s top concern at this point: Just 17 percent of respondents say that the Dow’s performance is their top economic issue, compared to 47 percent who say so about the price of food and goods or the 20 percent who cite the cost of housing and rent. One of the side effects of Trump’s campaigning and 2024 victory was to help solidify the Republican Party’s association with the working class — and to hold the overwhelming support of non-college-educated voters since 2016. Chief among the reasons for this splintering was the fact that the party is still trying to figure out how to reclaim the mantle of fighting for the working class, how to respond to Trump’s pitch on manufacturing jobs and protectionism, and how much to repudiate their neoliberal, free trade identity since the 1990s.
Author: Christian Paz
Published at: 2025-04-16 22:34:19
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