Why Don’t Democrats Win More Working Class Votes?

We should win every time but we don’t

Andrew Gaertner
Politically Speaking
12 min readFeb 22, 2022

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My photo. Showing the bleak prospects of the Democrats if we ignore the working class.

Both major parties attempt to appeal to working class people, but the Democrats keep missing the mark. As a Democrat who works for a living, I want my party to do better, both in messaging and in policies.

My grandpa (who we knew as Grandpap) grew up in western Pennsylvania. He washed windows…

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Andrew Gaertner
Politically Speaking

To live in a world of peace and justice we must imagine it first. For this, we need artists and writers. I write to reach for the edges of what is possible.