We are living with a profound disconnect.

From Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it by Glenn H. Reynolds.

When I returned to the US at sixteen, one of the things I observed was that the political discussion about race in the US sure looked like the European discussion about class.  I soon reached the conclusion that indeed, in the US, the discussion about race was merely a substitute for the more important discussion about class.  

In a multi-ethnic origin country such as the US, race is reasonably obvious.  In such a prosperous nation, class less obviously so.  

But just because we do not acknowledge a reality does not make the reality go away.  The well documented and quantified drift of factions of the Democratic party into the politics of anarchy, progressivism, social justice theory, critical race theory, and general wokedom is putting all public discussions and partisan coalition arrangements under stress.  

That is true for both parties but especially so for the Democrats.  For the past two or three decades, the Republican party, more by accident than design, has evolved into a big tent party.  There are financial conservatives, fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, religious conservatives, Main Street commerce conservatives, libertarians, Classical Liberal conservatives, constitutional conservatives, civil rights conservatives (First Amendment and Secondment Amendments in particular), patriotic conservatives, traditionalists, nationalist conservatives, etc.  Some individuals wear several of these hats at the same time.  For any particular issue, event, or proposed policy, there might be only a 60% agreement amongst the different factions.

The Democrats, meanwhile, have been purifying themselves.  The old coalition has become unstuck.  African-Americans remain largely loyal but for how long?  As an average, voting African-Americans are socially conservative, traditionalists, and religious.  Hispanics are recapitulating the drift away from the party that was seen among working class whites beginning in the eighties.  Democrats are at risk of purifying themselves down to the Bernie Sanders/AOC wing of the party combined with the rich dilettante/champagne liberal wing.  

All of which is background to what is one of the more succinct paragraphs describing the consequences of this from the above article.  

A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed. It’s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” foreign adventures and defunding police.

Yes.  That's about it.  Read the whole things.  

For academia, the mainstream media, and government, it's about power over everyone else.  For everyone else, its about government creating the conditions that support "jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed."  And not just the working class.  The working class, the middle class, and the upper middle class want these things.  But academia, the mainstream media, and government are not on the side of the working class, the middle class, and the upper middle class.

We are living with a profound disconnect.