Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro
“Democrats are in a trap. They imagine themselves as a party of the working class. They understand themselves as its natural leaders. They grasp they would be more successful as a working-class party. Huddled at the Ritz-Carlton munching on hors d’oeuvres like mini lobster rolls and short-rib tostones and a dinner featuring heirloom tomato carpaccio, beef tenderloin and seared sea bass, they hold seminar after seminar on how to become the party they feel themselves to be. They lie to themselves. To see why, look south. North America has a government of the working class: Mexico’s. Since its heterodox left came to power in 2018, Mexico has put the working class’s material interests first. But it hasn’t stopped there. It has doggedly incarnated the priorities and values of working-class people, very much including their prejudices and aversions. The result is a government that American progressives would find repellent.” (06/02/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/mexico-and-the-road-us-democrats