Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @davidshor @marcushjohnson Again, I think the stakes here are largely about labeling — “we need messages that appeal to working class values” sounds nice but if you say “we need messages that appeal to racial resentment” you’ll get tossed out of the meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@davidshor @gelliottmorris @Nate_Cohn @marcushjohnson To me that’s the key point — the *rhetoric* of the racial resentment construct tends to imply we are only talking about white people. But while white voters are of course important (most voters are white!) the relevant attitudes are cross-ethnic. — PolitiTweet.org