Center for Working Class Politics
Coverage of Center for Working Class Politics in the Nexus archive.
- The Democratic party needs to do more than represent wealthy progressives | Dustin Guastella
A class gap on the left threatens any winning coalition within the Democratic party, a divide considered larger than typical debates between moderates and progressives. The article notes that many of the party’s ideological factions consist of college-educated professionals, causing the priorities of working-class voters to be an afterthought. Jared Abbott and Joan Williams have issued a report looking at ways to bridge this class divide.
- Graham Platner is out. Troy Jackson should replace him | Dustin Guastella
Graham Platner's exit from Maine's US Senate race creates an opening for Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former state legislator from Fort Kent. Jackson's background as a union member and his leadership in a 1998 logging blockade align with the need for a candidate representing working-class, inland, and rural Mainers.