Jared Abbott

Nov 23, 2024 | cwcp.substack.com | Jared Abbott

This article was first published in Jacobin. It’s republished here with permission. Amid mounting evidence that declining support among working-class voters — particularly working-class voters of color — played a major role in Kamala Harris’s defeat, many commentators have started to reflect on how this shift happened and what Democrats can do to win back this crucial demographic in the future.

Nov 22, 2024 | jacobin.com | Jared Abbott

Amid mounting evidence that declining support among working-class voters — particularly working-class voters of color — played a major role in Kamala Harris’s defeat, many commentators have started to reflect on how this shift happened and what Democrats can do to win back this crucial demographic in the future.

Nov 20, 2024 | jacobin.com | Jared Abbott

After being warned not to flaunt his intellectual prowess during an upcoming event, fictional president Jed Bartlett — Nobel Prize winner in economics — quipped back to his press secretary, “Yes, God forbid that while speaking to 60,000 public-school students, the president should appear smart!” Moments later, Bartlett, portrayed by Martin Sheen, boasted that he could convert temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius in his head.

Nov 18, 2024 | dollarsandsense.org | Jared Abbott

Explaining Trump&squo;s Reelection This article is from Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics, available at http://www.dollarsandsense.orgThis article is from the January/February 2025 issue. It’s impossible to know exactly why President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

Nov 18, 2024 | jacobin.com | Jared Abbott

Remember back in 2016 when Chuck Schumer confidently asserted that “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia”? If there was any doubt before, there is none now: Senator Schumer was wrong. All signs indicate that Donald Trump made substantial inroads among the working class in November.