Pitchfork Politics

Working-class voters are now the most volatile bloc in American politics, and they are judging both parties by a simple test: are paychecks rising faster than costs?

Hosts Zach Silk and Richard Trent connect decades of change elections to economic dissatisfaction, explain why the old “soccer mom” model of the swing voter no longer fits, and assess what the coming election will reveal in places including Alaska, Texas, Kansas, and Maine. The takeaway for campaigns is direct: earning power requires a credible economic agenda that voters can feel at the kitchen table, and governing power requires delivering on it.

Pitchfork Politics is a project of Civic Ventures and the Middle Out Center, produced by Sam Holman and Larj Media. Tina Nole and Isaac Kaplan-Woolner produced and edited this episode. Greg Shishman engineered the episode.

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