Working class overwhelmingly prioritizes manufacturing over climate change

Published January 11, 2024 5:42pm ET



What does the working class really want?

That is the headline of George Packer’s review of seven recent books on politics and the economy for the Atlantic. And while the article gives a surprisingly fair hearing to the role mass migration has played in the decline of America’s working class, it still suffers from a glaring upper-class bias: an infatuation with climate change.

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