Resistance Is Not Enough. The Left Must Address the Grievances of the Working Class.

On February 12, Elon Musk Tesla opened An advanced batteries manufacturing worth $ 200 million, creating hundreds of new jobs. In China. At the same time, the Musk team was doing the additional work to stop paying already Federal investments To the main batteries manufacturers in rural areas are mostly in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and many other states. This hypocrisy should have put the Democrats and progressive in high equipment, and they were clearly asking, “Make” from Great again? “On our platform. Instead, the issue remained out of view.

Since the November elections, most liberals and progressive people have been interested in fear, ridicule and despair. The flood of anti -democratic measures, and that humanity is generally taken by Trump/Musk, meets our worst fears. So what should we do in response?

For most activists with left -wing tendencies, the answer is resistance. Resistance to the Cabinet of Trump. Resistance to his collective deportation; Elon Musk’s continuous resistance to critical federal agencies. The devastating Team Trump team and its actions for resistance – in the streets and courts and anywhere else we may have its influence. One of the examples of the resistance platform is not retail.A practical guide for democracy on the brink of the abyss“The essence of their strategy is wrapped in a short sentence:” During the next two years, “no” is a complete sentence. This is “time for defense”, they advise, instead of “proposing our policies.”

Trump’s resistance and holding it is very important. But almost a single left focus on defense-without providing a convincing vision of the same extent that addresses the grievances of rural societies and individuals of the working class-error. If we do not commit our commitment to the economy and politics that serve ordinary people loudly and clearly, we will undermine the efforts to combat Trump and increase the consolidation of the working class. Our anger and resistance must include continuous betrayal of farmers, unions, workers, American manufacturers and small companies.

Perhaps the “resistance strategy” that appeared in 2016 helped move the rise of Maga during the 2018 and 20 elections, but it did nothing to stop the long -term movement, widely for people away from the Democrats. Instead, he contributed to the already increasing feeling of millions of voters who are interested in politicians and democratic activists only by distorting Trump; To fight for the current situation, not to make life better for people like them. like New York Times Representatives summarized their talks with black and Latin voters who went to Trump in 2024, “The warnings of the Neriast Democrats about the threats of democracy were less persuasive compared to the urgency of their struggles to pay the rent.” This was an inverted error that cost Kamala Harris the elections in the elections paid by some of the most prominent consultants and critics on the left, and this was an inverted mistake that had cost Kamala Harris the elections. We cannot bear this error again.

We have to do more than just fighting the fire of bad things. Instead, we must present a positive vision of what we are toEspecially with regard to kitchen table issues for dozens of millions of Americans who are struggling to meet their needs.

These people believe that the regime is falsified against them – and they are right. But the Trump/Musk attack from the anti -workers, the pro -farmer’s procedures is an opportunity to present our own plan to clarify the system that most Americans hate.

How can the left lead forward a progressive economic agenda that focuses on workers when the right controls the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House? We can start raising some Democrats who have won the management areas with management, with a focus on their pro -workers or pro -corporate authority. From Chris Delosio in West Pennsylvania to Mary Glosingcpel Perez in Washington countryside, to Bat Ryan in Hudson Valley in New York, the democratic tent includes people who know the fighting for the young man against the man Wall Street housing seizure Or to Farmers’ rights on John Derry profits It is the correct policy and the winning policy.

Second, Democrats and groups with a left -wing settlement must underestimate the types of farm, work, small business and combat monopoly placed on platforms like A new rural dealOr in specific draft laws such as Senator Amy Cluboshr.The law reforming the law and combating monopolyOr the actor Rowna “Child care for America” legislation. These proposed laws and policies must become the criterion in which Trump’s economic, commercial, employment and industrial policies are measured. In other words, we must fight like hell to protect the policies and investments of the pro-books worker-and that we scream from the roofs of the houses around the China Factory in Musk, and to cleanse the work voices in the National Council for Labor Relations, and farmers on the hooks of the investments they made with the federal return promise.

Finally, we need walking and chewing gum, that is, fighting collective deportations, anti-diversity bills, and much more-While too Work to convert the institutions and organizations that we control to better serve the largest and most angry part of the voters: rural people and people who do not obtain a university degree. The struggle for federal employees was unfairly rejected and for the specific federal acts such as the Consumer Finance Protection Office, which brought back billions of dollars to consumer pockets, or the United States Agency for International Development, which saves lives and helps build confidence in America, is the right thing to do. But if the left is fighting reflective to protect every inch of bureaucracy and continues to put itself as a defender of the “regime”, then our chances of mobilizing the extensive rule needed to defeat Trump and musk are almost not remembered. As the actor Khanna said in a hadith New York Times Editorial“The alternative to Mr. Trump cannot be a defense of institutions as they are. We need to stand on the national renewal that nostalgia does not move to nostalgia to some of the slogans of the golden or simple anti -regime, but by providing transformative solutions to provide future prosperity to all Americans, revive our bonds as citizens and heal our gaps in this process.”

Trump Approval classification It is the highest since then January 2017. This is because millions of Americans believe that Trump is destroying a system that has been for decades ago. If Trump and Musk are thwarted, Democrats will have to do more than just defending the institutions and rules that make up this system. We will need to stand with Americans working through race, in cities and countryside; To admit the righteousness of their anger; And fighting for both concrete actions and transformative policies that restore economic and political power in the hands of people.