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Celebrity Democrats are a Liability
If Celebrities are for us, who can be against us?
When you are on the progressive left, it is sometimes hard to get people to take you seriously. Universal healthcare, free college, basic public income, reparations, federally-funded political campaigns, the Green New Deal; sure it all sounds nice. But too often, members of the progressive movement find themselves facing accusations of unseriousness, of pie-in-the-sky promises that never, ever come to anything.
That progressive ideas are too expensive, too impractical, too idealistic, is something liberal Democrats are constantly being reminded of by dissenting voices from inside and outside the party.
Increasingly, these dissenting voices are coming from the working-class. Which is odd, because it is usually the wealthy and upper middle-class who object to liberal progressive policies. In a complete shift, the criticisms of progressive social goals, and more specifically the tax increases needed to pay for them, are now coming from the working-class and being directed towards wealthy elites.
Usually, the reverse is true. Generally, progressive policies have tended to favor the working-class. But over the past decade, during which the progressive policy of globalism destroyed American manufacturing and the American towns which depended on it, the allegiance…