Joe Biden has delivered in spades for ordinary American workers. But it is not enough to get past the gulf that separates them from educated Democrat elites.
After Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, most sensible Democrats realised they had a problem. The party was haemorrhaging support from the white working class. More than 60 per cent of Americans older than 25 do not have a four-year college degree; it’s very hard to win national elections without them.
So in 2020, the Democrats did something sensible. For the first time in 36 years, they nominated a presidential candidate who did not have a degree from Harvard University or Yale University. Joe Biden won the White House and immediately pursued an ambitious agenda to support the working class.
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David Brooks is an opinion columnist for The New York Times.
