I have views on what Democrats are doing wrong politically, but the basic issue is that we are out of touch. I’ve never seen such wildly pro-labor sentiment in America in my lifetime, but the Democratic governing class has no connection to the working class. When Democrats admire a working class icon as much as they admire Anthony Fauci, they will no longer be out of touch. Screw that. When Democrats can *name* a working class icon. – Matt Stoller

It’s been obvious for anyone with eyes and ears for a long time now, but of course the Democrats have long since become the party of the rich. As Lee Drutman illuminated in his 2016 Vox piece “Democrats Are Replacing Republicans as the Preferred Party of the Very Wealthy”:

In 2012, something unusual happened. The wealthiest 4 percent of voting-age Americans, by a narrow plurality, supported a Democrat for president … For the foreseeable future, the wealthiest Americans will prefer Democrats …2012 was not a blip. It was the beginning of a phase shift. Democrats are replacing Republicans as the preferred party of the new American rich.

For the record, we don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with being rich (sounds nice), but it is a tad annoying when the antipopulist party of fake victimhood, identity politics, and phony outrage pretends that its identity-obsessed agenda isn’t just a convenient smokescreen for either the least self-aware or most Machiavellian group of “State Capitalists, Cultural Marxists” in American history (last week, even Van Jones admitted “Democrats are coming across in ways that we don’t recognize that are annoying”). Heck, at least when the GOP was the party of the rich, the party knew it and didn’t pretend that it wasn’t. As David Bromwich recently pointed out in his The Nation piece “Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich?”:

If you’re waiting for Democrats to talk as frankly about wealth as they do about race, don’t hold your breath. Some recent US figures on the distribution of income by party: 65 percent of taxpayer households that earn more than $500,000 per year are now in Democratic districts; 74 percent of the households in Republican districts earn less than $100,00 per year. Add to this what we knew already, namely that the 10 richest congressional districts in the country all have Democratic representatives in Congress…The party as a whole remains closer to Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood than it is to the merchants who lost their livelihoods in the summer riots of 2020.

Jeff Bezos? Democrat. Mark Zuckerberg? Democrat. Jack Dorsey? Democrat. Tim Cook? Democrat. Sundar Pichai? Democrat. George Soros? Democrat. Bill Gates? Democrat. Charles Koch? The epitome of the typical Anti-Trump Globalist elite. Are you seeing a pattern forming here? We’re not sure about you, but it’s hard to take scam artist Democrat Party elites (who have a tenuous allegiance to America at best) seriously when they pretend that it is still the Reagan 80’s forever and that “Big Tobacco” is still secretly running the country in the shadows (LOL).

Meanwhile, any Dem looking to be less ‘annoying’ can stop with their goofy witchunts for “The Man” any day now (we’re not holding our breath) and just look in the mirror already. If only had they ever listened to our favorite left-wing populist writer Thomas Frank, author of Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? and The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism, they might achieve some of that so-called “progress” that they never shut the hell up about and reverse the decades of damage they’ve inflicted on the country.