The Answers Come in Different Forms

Sometimes it is veteran Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, railing against the oligarchs. Or it’s Connecticut Sen.

Chris Murphy, who after the 2024 election declared, Democrats must reclaim our identity as the party of the working class. Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not. Graham Platner, the Maine Senate candidate who had become the left’s latest blue-collar savior until he ended his campaign in the wake of a sexual assault allegation, put the theory in its most unguarded form. We are in a form of class war, he says.