Simon Van Zylen Wood
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Apple News Today · He brought a stuffed animal to school. Then he was handcuffed. · 3 Dec 2024
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As you look closer, it wasn't really where the media class or the elite wing of the Democratic Party resides. It was actually in the most multi-ethnic working class neighborhoods in New York.
So if anyone in New York has ever been to a Mets game at Citi Field or ever been to Flushing for the U.S. Open, you've been so close to this very interesting but very different slice of New York.
It's the epicenter of the migrant crisis. Ever since 200,000 plus migrants arrived since 2022 in New York City, a lot of them went to Corona and Elmhurst, which are heavily Latino immigrant neighborhoods in New York City.
I also think there are uncomfortable realities about the things that those voters are going through. And the solutions to their problems do not always look like what the liberal and progressive wings of the Democratic Party want them to look like.
Through 2020, 2022, and now 2024, we've seen a steady migration of working class voters of color migrating away from the Democratic Party. And that just means working class voters in general. That's a tectonic shift in American politics. Like the Democratic Party for generations has been supposedly the party of the working middle class. And all of a sudden, voters don't feel that anymore.
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