Sen. Rubio: Can There Ever Be Working-Class Republican Party?
February 09, 2021
February 09, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following op-ed published in The New Republic:
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It took the election of Donald Trump in 2016 to show many Republicans that the left-behind were part of their constituency, maybe the most important part. ... [Now] a party of upper-middle-class traditions and inclinations finds itself left alone with the working-class parts of Trump's base, in a society where the deck is more stacked against the worki . . .
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It took the election of Donald Trump in 2016 to show many Republicans that the left-behind were part of their constituency, maybe the most important part. ... [Now] a party of upper-middle-class traditions and inclinations finds itself left alone with the working-class parts of Trump's base, in a society where the deck is more stacked against the worki . . .