This essay, on why JD Vance’s populism has little to offer the working class, was published in the Observer on 21 July 2024 under the headline “Aristopopulists like JD Vance can offer only empty promises to the working class”. “The tragedy of Trump’s candidacy is that, embedded in his furious exhortations against Muslims and Mexicans and trade deals gone awry is a message that America’s white poor don’t need: that everything wrong in your life is someone else’s fault.” That was JD Vance, Donald […]

Categories: Class, International, Politics • Tags: anti-union laws, aristopopulism, donald trump, elite politics, gop, hillbilly elegy, jd vance, patrick deneen, populism, republican party, sean o'brien, teamsters