Batya Ungar-Sargon believes the Left elite have “invented” the idea that the working class is “racist and xenophobic”.
The Newsweek Opinion Editor joined Neil Oliver on GB News to give her thoughts on democracy being “undermined” by woke forms of media.
She told Neil the Democrats have abandoned a traditional role of representing the working class to “cater to the over-credentialed college elites”.
Ungar-Sargon argues this contravenes with the traditional role of the party due to this group’s “contempt” for people who “work with their hands for a living, who work in goods and services, who do the kind of jobs that we all rely on to survive”.
Batya Ungar-Sargon says the Democrats have abandoned the working class
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She argued: “The Democrats want to cater to the elites and then have large taxes to fund a welfare state from the bottom to sustain the poor.
“Neither of those models is what the working class wants. What they want is an economy that rewards their hard work, because they work really hard.”
Donald Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nominationREUTERS
Joe Biden is under pressure to address the border crisisReutersAsked why Donald Trump is “effectively” targeting the working class, Ungar-Sargon said the message is not getting through for the Democrats.
“What we’re seeing right now is an absolute reprisal of the kind of language we heard in 2016 when Donald Trump stated to rise”, she said.
“You had Hillary Clinton talking about this basket of deplorable, which was how she called the working class that was flocking to Donald Trump.
“They have invented this idea that the working class is racist and xenophobic in order to absolve themselves of the responsibility for having abandoned these people.”
Joe Biden sought to win over the working class in his State of the Union speech, insisting the Republicans are not on their side.
He spoke out on the state of the US economy, painting it in a positive light as he boasted tax credits that “save $800 per person per year”, reducing health care premiums for millions of working families.
The US President also said it is “not far” that working people “who built this country” find themselves “paying more into Social Security than millionaires and billionaires do”.
He insisted Republicans will end up “giving more tax cuts to the wealthy” as he looked to position his party as the one on the side of working people.
Biden is heading for a rematch with Donald Trump at the November US election.
The former President has seen off his most major competition for the position in Nikki Haley after a chastening Super Tuesday for the former US envoy.
