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Why Democrats Share The Blame For The Rise Of Donald\nTrump<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Reich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was part of a Democratic administration that\nfailed to fix a rigged system \u2013 I know our current president is a symptom of\nour disunion, not its only cause. An impeached\npresident who is up for re-election will this week deliver a State of the Union\naddress to the most divided union in living memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why are\nwe so divided? We\u2019re not fighting a hugely unpopular war on the scale of\nVietnam. We\u2019re not in a deep economic crisis like the Great Depression. Yes, we\ndisagree about guns, gays, abortion and immigration, but we\u2019ve disagreed about\nthem for decades. Why are we so divided now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the\nanswer is Trump himself. The Great Divider knows how to pit native-born\nAmericans against immigrants, the working class against the poor, whites\nagainst blacks and Latinos, evangelicals against secularists, keeping almost\neveryone stirred up by vilifying, disparaging, denouncing, defaming and\naccusing others of the worst. Trump thrives off disruption and division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\nbegs the question of why we have been so ready to be divided by Trump. The\nanswer derives in large part from what has happened to wealth and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the fall\nof 2015, I visited Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Missouri\nand North Carolina, for a research project on the changing nature of work. I\nspoke with many of the people I had met 20 years before when I was secretary of\nlabor, as well as with some of their grown children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\nheard surprised me. Twenty years before, many said they\u2019d been working hard and\nwere frustrated they weren\u2019t doing better. Now they were angry \u2013 angry at their\nemployers, the government, Wall Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many had\nlost jobs, savings, or homes in the Great Recession following the financial\ncrisis of 2008, or knew others who had. Most were back in jobs but the jobs\npaid no more than they had two decades before, in terms of purchasing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I heard the\nterm \u201crigged system\u201d so often I began asking people what they meant. They spoke\nabout flat wages, shrinking benefits, growing job insecurity. They talked about\nthe bailout of Wall Street, political payoffs, insider deals, soaring CEO pay,\nand \u201ccrony capitalism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These\ncomplaints came from people who identified themselves as Republicans, Democrats\nand independents. A few had joined the Tea Party. A few had briefly been\ninvolved in the Occupy movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2016\nrebellion is ongoing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the\n2016 political primaries looming, I asked which candidates they found most\nattractive. At the time, the leaders of the Democratic party favored Hillary\nClinton and Republican leaders favored Jeb Bush. Yet no one I spoke with\nmentioned Clinton or Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They talked\ninstead about Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. When I asked why, they said\nSanders or Trump would \u201cshake things up\u201d or \u201cmake the system work again\u201d or\n\u201cstop the corruption\u201d or \u201cend the rigging\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nfollowing year, Sanders \u2013 a 74-year-old Jew from Vermont who described himself\nas a democratic socialist and wasn\u2019t even a Democrat until the primaries \u2013 came\nwithin a whisker of beating Clinton in Iowa, routed her in New Hampshire, and\nended up with 46% of the pledged delegates from Democratic primaries and\ncaucuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump \u2013 a\n69-year-old egomaniacal billionaire reality-TV star who had never held elective\nofficer or had anything to do with the Republican party and who lied\ncompulsively about everything \u2013 won the primaries and went on to beat Clinton,\none of the most experienced and well-connected politicians in modern America\n(although he didn\u2019t win the popular vote, and had some help from the Kremlin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something\nvery big had happened, and it wasn\u2019t due to Sanders\u2019 magnetism or Trump\u2019s\nlikeability. It was a rebellion against the establishment. That rebellion is\nstill going on, although much of the establishment still denies it. They prefer\nto attribute Trump\u2019s rise solely to racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racism did\nplay a part. But to understand why racism had such a strong impact in 2016,\nespecially on the voting of whites without college degrees, it\u2019s important to\nsee what drove it. After all, racism in America dates back long before the\nfounding of the Republic, and even modern American politicians have had few\ncompunctions about using racism to boost their standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What gave\nTrump\u2019s racism \u2013 as well as his hateful xenophobia, misogyny and jingoism \u2013\nparticular virulence was his capacity to channel the intensifying anger of the\nwhite working class into it. It is hardly the first time in history that a\ndemagogue has used scapegoats to deflect public attention from the real causes\nof distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats\ndid nothing to change a rigged system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aided by\nFox News and an army of rightwing outlets, Trump convinced many blue-collar\nworkers feeling ignored by Washington that he was their champion. Clinton did\nnot convince them that she was. Her decades of public service ended up being a\nnegative, not a positive. She was indubitably part of the establishment, the\nepitome of decades of policies that left these blue-collar workers in the dust.\n(It\u2019s notable that during the primaries, Sanders did far better than Clinton\nwith blue-collar voters.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\ngalvanized millions of blue-collar voters living in communities that never\nrecovered from the tidal wave of factory closings. He promised to bring back\njobs, revive manufacturing and get tough on trade and immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t\ncontinue to allow China to rape our country, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing,\u201d he\nsaid at one rally. \u201cIn five, 10 years from now, you\u2019re going to have a workers\u2019\nparty. A party of people that haven\u2019t had a real wage increase in 18 years,\nthat are angry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at\na factory in Pennsylvania in June 2016, he decried politicians and financiers\nwho had betrayed Americans by \u201ctaking away from the people their means of\nmaking a living and supporting their families\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats\nhad occupied the White House for 16 of the 24 years before Trump\u2019s election, and\nin that time scored some important victories for working families: the\nAffordable Care Act, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit and the Family and\nMedical Leave Act, for example. I take pride in being part of a Democratic\nadministration during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But\nDemocrats did nothing to change the vicious cycle of wealth and power that had\nrigged the economy for the benefit of those at the top and undermined the\nworking class. As Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg concluded after the\n2016 election, \u201cDemocrats don\u2019t have a \u2018white working-class\u2019 problem. They have\na \u2018working class problem\u2019 which progressives have been reluctant to address\nhonestly or boldly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact\nis that Democrats have lost support with all working-class voters across the\nelectorate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clinton and\nObama chose not to wrest power back from the oligarchy. Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nfirst two years of the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, Democrats\ncontrolled both houses of Congress. Yet both Clinton and Obama advocated free\ntrade agreements without providing millions of blue-collar workers who\nconsequently lost their jobs any means of getting new ones that paid at least\nas well. Clinton pushed for Nafta and for China joining the World Trade\nOrganization, and Obama sought to restore the \u201cconfidence\u201d of Wall Street\ninstead of completely overhauling the banking system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both stood\nby as corporations hammered trade unions, the backbone of the white working\nclass. They failed to reform labor laws to allow workers to form unions with a\nsimple up-or-down majority vote, or even to impose meaningful penalties on\ncompanies that violated labor protections. Clinton deregulated Wall Street\nbefore the crash; Obama allowed the Street to water down attempts to\nre-regulate it after the crash. Obama protected Wall Street from the\nconsequences of its gambling addiction through a giant taxpayer-funded bailout,\nbut allowed millions of underwater homeowners to drown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both\nClinton and Obama turned their backs on campaign finance reform. In 2008, Obama\nwas the first presidential nominee since Richard Nixon to reject public\nfinancing in his primary and general election campaigns, and he never followed\nup on his re-election promise to pursue a constitutional amendment overturning\nCitizens United vs FEC, the 2010 supreme court opinion opening wider the\nfloodgates to big money in politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although\nClinton and Obama faced increasingly hostile Republican congresses, they could\nhave rallied the working class and built a coalition to grab back power from\nthe emerging oligarchy. Yet they chose not to. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no\nlonger a left or right. There is no longer a moderate \u2018center\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My answer\nis not just hypothetical, because I directly witnessed much of it: it was\nbecause Clinton, Obama and many congressional Democrats sought the votes of the\n\u201csuburban swing voter\u201d \u2013 so-called \u201csoccer moms\u201d in the 1990s and affluent\npolitically independent professionals in the 2000s \u2013 who supposedly determine electoral\noutcomes, and turned their backs on the working class. They also drank from the\nsame campaign funding trough as the Republicans \u2013 big corporations, Wall Street\nand the very wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A direct\nline connects the four-decade stagnation of wages with the bailout of Wall\nStreet, the rise of the Tea Party (and, briefly, Occupy), and the successes of\nSanders and Trump in 2016. As Eduardo Porter of the New York Times notes, since\n2000 Republican presidential candidates have steadily gained strength in America\u2019s\npoorer counties while Democrats have lost ground. In 2016, Trump won 58% of the\nvote in the counties with the poorest 10% of the population. His share was 31%\nin the richest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By 2016,\nAmericans understood full well that wealth and power had moved to the top. Big\nmoney had rigged our politics. This was the premise of Sanders\u2019s 2016 campaign.\nIt was also central to Trump\u2019s appeal \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m so rich I can\u2019t be bought off\u201d \u2013\nalthough once elected he delivered everything big money wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most\npowerful force in American politics today continues to be anti-establishment\nfury at a rigged system. There is no longer a left or right. There\u2019s no longer\na moderate \u201ccenter\u201d. There\u2019s either Trump\u2019s authoritarian populism or\ndemocratic \u2013 small \u201cd\u201d \u2013 populism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats\ncannot defeat authoritarian populism without an agenda of radical democratic\nreform, an anti-establishment movement. Trump has harnessed the frustrations of\nat least 40% of America. Although he\u2019s been a Trojan Horse for big corporations\nand the rich, giving them all they\u2019ve wanted in tax cuts and regulatory\nrollbacks, the working class continues to believe he\u2019s on their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats\nmust stand squarely on the side of democracy against oligarchy. They must form\na unified coalition of people of all races, genders, sexualities and classes,\nand band together to unrig the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trump is\nnot the cause of our divided nation. He is the symptom of a rigged system that\nwas already dividing us. It\u2019s not enough to defeat him. We must reform the\nsystem that got us here in the first place, to ensure that no future politician\nwill ever again imitate Trump\u2019s authoritarian demagoguery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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