Interview · moment 3 of 28
Trump's Mass Communication Genius and the Democrats' Abandonment of the Working Class
from Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433 · #433
4 min
Guest
Bannon argues Trump has a McLuhan-esque, cellular-level understanding of mass communication and working-class appeal, while the Democratic Party has ceded populism to Republicans by becoming a party of credentialed elites and billionaires.
- Trump understands mass communication at a cellular level that even his detractors miss
- The modern Democratic party is more lost in the wilderness than any party he's seen in his lifetime
- Every major political movement in America has been built on working class and lower middle class power
- The Democratic party abandoned the working class to a billionaire and credentialed elite structure
- Trump presented himself as willing to listen and provide solutions, so working class voters responded
- Trump transformed the Republican party from country club elites to working class in ten to twelve years
- Democrats don't promote working-class populists like Rahana or Fetterman despite them being the only voices trying
- The credential class is too precious to engage with actual working class issues
Democratic PartyDonald TrumpMSNBCpopulismMarshall McLuhanFettermanRahanaBernie Sanders