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How The Left Lost The Working Class

How The Left Lost The Working Class

Update: 2025-06-25
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Mike talks with Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair (emerita) at University of California College of Law San Francisco. She’s the author of the recently released book, Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, which they discuss in this episode.


Topics Mike & Joan cover include:


- class blindness on the left


- the ‘missing middle’


- why moving to the center isn’t the answer


- why red states with ‘family values’ have so much family dysfunction


- toxic masculinity and deploying alternative masculinities


- the left’s problem with patriotism


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How The Left Lost The Working Class

How The Left Lost The Working Class

Michael Baranowski