Identity Crisis
The global left has moved away from social class as an organizing identity, allowing the Right to peddle a working-class identity politics untethered from the socialist vision.
At July’s Republican National Convention, J. D. Vance reported that there is a class struggle — and he knows which side he’s on. Declaring himself a “working-class boy born far from the halls of power,” the vice-presidential hopeful hailed Donald Trump as “a leader who’s not in the pocket of big business but answers to the working man, […]