Why Working Class Voters Shifted Rightward This Election

President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because working-class voters continued their migration toward the America First populism that Trump has advocated for the past three election cycles. One indicator of that shift is the working-class city of Fall River, Massachusetts, which voted Republican for the first time in 100 years. “Consider that from ’96 through the last Obama election, Democrats got 70 to 75 percent of the vote in Fall River. That’s an enormous swing,” said author and political commentator E.J. Dionne at a Nov. 12 panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution. “And that does speak to the decline of the Democratic vote among non-college whites and others without a college degree.”...