Message to Democrats: embrace economic bread-and-butter issues to win | Matthew Karp and Dustin Guastella

Our study finds that working-class voters respond better to economic policies than identity-based, activist-driven campaigns

As he set about disembowelling Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill last month, Joe Manchin paused to offer some cheerful advice for outraged progressives. [A]ll they need to do," said the West Virginia senator, is elect more liberals."

There was something slightly perverse about Manchin counseling the leftwingers whose policy agenda he was helping tear apart: he sounded like a burglar recommending a home security system as he made off with his loot. And yet his point is undeniable: if progressives hope to gain more leverage in American politics, they must win more elections.