How could a billionaire born into wealth become the champion of the white working class? That question stumped a lot of liberal commentators, but Joan Williams wasn’t surprised . Williams studies the white working class and is founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. On the Front Porch podcast, she makes a case for reaching across the class-culture gap to understand one another. Here are nine things she said many liberals (and some non-liberal elites)