{"id":2227,"date":"2026-08-13T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:35:46","slug":"class-gap-on-the-left-threatens-any-winning-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"Class Gap on the Left Threatens Any Winning Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/71\/718720_1_.jpeg\" \/><br \/>Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a governing coalition. Yet, in many ways, this divide obscures a much bigger fault line: the class divide. The fact is, many of the Democratic party&#8217;s ideological factions consist almost exclusively of college-educated professionals. As a result, the priorities of this class tend to dominate the party&#8217;s appeals. The priorities of working-class voters, meanwhile, are an afterthought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a governing coalition. Yet, in many ways, this divide obscures a much bigger fault line: the class divide. The fact is, many of the Democratic party&#8217;s ideological factions consist almost exclusively&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4197,4199,4198,1222,3188,999],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-class","tag-coalition","tag-gap","tag-left","tag-threatens","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}