The working man says, “Gas is expensive.”
The Dem energy chief says, “Go buy an expensive electric car.”
Gee…can’t figure out why the Dems are losing them.
For some, it's just this simple. ^^
I know many "working men", a number of whom work for me and once upon a time I would estimate that 80%+ of them voted Dem. (Not really sure, because no one talked too much about politics openly back in the day. But based on bumper stickers, some open comments made, etc, I would be comfortable guessing at that 80% range, or above, for the Dems.)
Now...easily flip flopped, fairly confident that 80%+ vote for R's. Things referenced by the men that would influence this...
1. Student debt forgiveness. The Dem's keep edging this way and I can't think of a worse strategy for them to take. They are not going to gain a lot of votes by doing this that they weren't otherwise going to get, IMO. But they are losing votes over this policy alone. Net, net...I think they are guilty of self-injurious behavior here. But, whatever.
2. Inflation, even prior to the past 6 months of hyper inflation.
3. Really anything economic, to include government sponsored entitlement and spending in general, or income tax related. Basically, they are going to work, paying taxes and to the extent that others aren't, and are receiving whatever stipend, etc, from the govt...that's not cool.
4. Open borders - in some cases, jobs/positions have been "lost" to illegal aliens and that creates hard feelings.
5. Wokeness, in various forms.
In short, in the infamous words of James Carville, "It's the economy, stupid!". Still applies from what I can gather.