How to get working class whites to vote in their own economic interest

“They vote against their own interests!”

This is a repeated statement expressing the frustration of liberals over the willingness of poor and working class white voters to support conservative Republican candidates committed to cutting the very programs they rely upon. I have heard this statement many times in my life as a political activist. It completely confounded many commentators and analysts in the wake of President Trump’s election. Just today, Thomas Edsall wrote a column in the The New York Times…