In her new book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, Joan C. Williams has a message for her fellow liberals: if you don’t care about the problems facing working-class Americans and don’t strive to understand their point of view on things, you won’t win elections. 

“My message to liberals is that we will lose elections,” Williams says, “or scrape by so narrowly we can’t implement progressive changes, unless we can secure more votes from these middle-status voters in routine jobs feeling left behind. So if you care about climate change or abortion rights or defending democracy, you need to care about these lower-middle-class voters.”

Williams is a distinguished professor of law at the University of California, San Francisco, and the founding director of the Equality Action Center. Outclassed is a compelling and insightful read, even if some of its generalizations are off the mark.

According to Williams, “The Democratic Party over the........

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