Important Addition to Edsall Column on the Politics of Resentment: Downward Mobility Was by Design

Thomas Edsall had an interesting piece last week on the politics of resentment. The gist of that a large portion of non-college educated whites are voting based on their fear of losing their social status.

While there is undoubtedly much truth to Edsalls argument, there is an important point that Edsall leaves out. He tells readers:

Voters in the bottom half of the income distribution face a level of hypercompetition that has, in turn, served to elevate politicized status anxiety in a world...