Interview in Jacobin: “Left-Wing Populism Can Win in Trump-Voting Areas, Too”
Jonathan Smucker and Allison Troy talk with Jarod Abbott about organizing in Central Pennsylvania and pushing the Democratic Party to fight for everyday working people.
We are not seeing a lot of mainstream Democratic outfits developing or testing messaging that explicitly challenges the old-guard leadership of the Democratic Party, its cozy relationship with large donors, and its failure to fight visibly and vocally for working-class people. We think that such messaging is desperately needed if we’re going to stop the bleed of working-class voters and win the majorities needed to actually govern, actually deliver meaningfully for working people, and also to defeat the threat of rising authoritarianism. That’s why [we’re] starting a new research and communication strategy organization to do exactly that.
