This is a very unfinished and unpolished page.

It explores the paradox that "working-class people seem to vote against their own interests" by voting for conservatives who oppose labor issues.

• Is the premise even true?
  • "Why the Working Class Votes Against Its Economic Interests", 31 July 2020
  • "Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?", 31 Dec 2017
• "The smug style in American liberalism", by Emmett Rensin, 21 Apr 2016
• reverse post-material thesis, a page on Wikipedia
• "Democratic strategists say the party's biggest vulnerability is assuming that the priorities of progressive activists are the same as those of working-class voters." (read the three bullet points after that sentence, it's very interesting)
• right-wing populism vs. left-wing populism
  • "Why Right Populists Beat Left Populists (in the West)", by Brandon Van Dyck, 2021
  • "No easy answers: why left-wing economics is not the answer to right-wing populism", by Zack Beauchamp, 13 March 2017
  • "Drivers of Authoritarian Populism in the United States", multiple authors at the Center For American Progress, 10 May 2018