Why Many Working Class Voters Shifted Rightward This Election

‘We are witnessing the emergence of a new politics of class,’ said Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston.

A member of Auto Workers for Trump campaigns outside the Stellantis Plant in Royal Oak, Mich., on Oct. 17, 2024. Lawrence Wilson/The Epoch Times

President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because working-class voters continued their migration toward the America First populism that Trump has advocated for the past three election cycles.

One indicator of that shift is the working-class city of Fall River, Massachusetts, which voted Republican for the first time in 100 years.