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Losing such blue-wall states as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to Donald Trump in 2016, plus the current erosion of working-class support for Joe Biden that shows up in every poll, has at least sounded a fire bell in the night to Democrats and people who love or merely put up with them. Even critics who fault the Democrats for alienating much of working-class America through their embrace of what they term radical social policies… also lay much, perhaps most, of the blame on the anti-labor and pro–Wall Street economic policies (free trade and anti-Keynesianism in particular) of the Carter, Clinton, and Obama administrations.