Second Class How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

You can see it over her right shoulder on the screen. Well worth your time.

I think that's exactly right. She has the kind of background that really predicts for upward mobility. Her mother has a Ph.D. They valued education very much at home. Her bio, her official bio on the White House talks about her loving extended family. And these are all of the things that predict for upward mobility in America today, whereas J.D. comes out of this broken, broken situation, these broken, destroyed communities in the Rust Belt, which were destroyed by Democratic policies like, you know, NAFTA opening the border, defunding vocational training in schools. You know, thank you, Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And that's where he comes out of. J.D. Vance is a survivor of domestic violence. There are so many people who look to that, to that thing that he survived, who are experiencing that right now and seeing that representation and thinking, wow, it can really get better.

Joining me now, Bacchia Angar Sargan, opinion editor at Newsweek and author of the new book, Second Class.

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This book, White Rural Rage is the Democrats fantasy about why they are losing because it gives them an alibi for what actually happened, which is that they abandoned the working class, which is now flocking to Donald Trump.

What I found in my book was the exact opposite of white rural rage.

It's called Second Class how the elites betrayed America's working men and women.

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Bajie, you wrote this book Second Class and it takes a hard look at the working class of America and how they've been forgotten by the Democrat Party and they've migrated much more to the Republicans.

My book 'Second Class' is all about how the Democrats especially betrayed the working class and abandoned them.

And if you're working class you're essentially second class it's much harder to achieve the American dream.

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They didn't just abandon labor and the working class... What they did was they abandoned them and then called them racist from their perch of immense privilege in order to mask this betrayal right.

One of the things I found when I wrote my book 'Second Class' is that working class Americans they don't hate billionaires... But they do feel that siding with corporations is siding against them

She collected these stories, stories of cleaning ladies and truck drivers and door dash drivers and fast food workers and cops and plumbers and janitors in her new book which is called second class.

You spent the last year traveling the country, talking to working class voters and all of these Americans are captured in your new book, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

I think in the same way that most of us have a picture in our minds of a billionaire, whether it's Jeff Bezos on his yacht or a billionaire on a Gulf Stream, people have a picture in their mind when it comes to the American working class.

The book combines Batia's extensive reporting with data and expert opinion on America's emergent class divide in which the most basic elements of a secure and stable life are increasingly out of reach for those Americans without a college education.

Batya Anghar Sargon is a Free Press contributor and the opinion editor at Newsweek. She is also the author of the essential book, Second Class.

When I was reporting my book, Second Class, and traveling around the country interviewing working-class people, their top two policy agenda items were they wanted much less immigration, legal and illegal, and much more access to high-quality, affordable health care.

Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

I really wanted this book to be a conversation starter. There's so much in it that I think feels incredibly intuitive, especially to working class people or people like you guys whose lives are not totally separate from working class people the way that many in the elites are.

It's so obvious that life has become incredibly difficult for the hardest working Americans. So I really wanted to explain. How that happened, why that happened and how we fix it.

The book out by Bhatia Ungar Sargon is fantastic. Highly recommend you get a copy. Second class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

the book by Batya Ungar-Sargon you mentioned the immigration issue uh this is one i is one of the i think most fascinating and honestly most important issues in america today and has been for many years there's more focus on it now there has been a while but let's break down some of what it really means now you mentioned protecting wages um what does it mean for the cost of a house what does it mean for wages to have not just a lot of mass immigration in general but now millions upon millions eight million is probably the number for Biden's first term coming into the country illegally

the boat out by Batya Ungar-Sargon is fantastic highly recommend you get a copy second class how the elites betrayed america's working men and women

Third hour, we're going to have Bhatia Unger Sargon, who is an opinion editor at Newsweek with her book Second Class, how the elites betrayed America's working men and women.

It's really thrilling to be here with you. It's music to my ears to hear you say that because I really wanted this book to be a conversation starter.

It's so obvious that life has become incredibly difficult for the hardest working Americans. So I really wanted to explain how that happened, why that happened and how we fix it.

The book by Bhatia Ungar Sargon is fantastic. Highly recommend you get a copy. Second class, how the elites betrayed America's working men and women.

It's one of those times where the title itself gets a whole lot of conversation started, I think, because people recognize that something's gone on.

I mean, I could talk just about the elites selling out to China and what that's done to American manufacturing and workers.

She is also the author of the new book, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

So I guess that led you to writing this book that we're about to get into second class, how the elites betrayed America's working men and women.

That was Batya Angar Sargan with her new book, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

Really interesting stuff. Batya, great book. I love this. I think this is so important.

I hope this book is such massive success.

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So let's talk about that book, I Said it yesterday before I knew you were gonna come on and talk about this subject. I said

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For my book second class

Batya Ungar Sargon, who wrote a book called Bad News is coming out with a book called Second Class that I just read. And it's all about sort of like the portrayal of the working class.