The Democratic Party's New Recruiter Has a Theory
I found this article about Democrat Jason Crow to be quite interesting. One of the topics that has come up here about one reason why working class voters may perceive Democrats as elitist is their use of celebrities in their campaigns. But there are many other reasons as well. I think Rep. Crow is correct that Democrats need to reconnect with working-class voters because we have the policies that benefit them, but many don’t believe that Democrats value their lives.
“For Representative Jason Crow of Colorado, a Democrat who may just hold the key to his party winning back the House in 2026, the path to victory starts with understanding how Americans live their lives, down to the most personal details.
“A lot of communities divide the world between when you shower: before work or after work,” he told me, chowing on a burrito at a corner table in Milly’s Community Cafe in Aurora, at the heart of his district outside Denver. Many who shower later — working-class folks living paycheck-to-paycheck — have tuned out Democrats, he said. “They’re not listening to us, because they don’t believe that we respect them and see them.”
He’s not wrong. How the Democratic Party wound up in the political wilderness has myriad answers. But one of the clearest, and, for many Democrats, the most vexing, is that the party became identified as the champion of cultural elites.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/opinion/jason-crow-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.aQyj.d05qM-a4M4Mh&smid=url-share