Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (Encounter Books, 2020), documents the unprecedented pressures, at least in modern times, now being placed upon the working class. While the elites push woke, politically correct causes, such as the gender agenda and climate change hysteria, the workers are concerned with base-line survival now, soaring energy, food and housing costs. As detailed below, this is being seen in the French elections with the rise of Le Pen, who, if things are fair (they won’t be), has a chance of becoming president, from the politics of anger and resentment. Remember the yellow vest protests, that may have died down, but not the anger which generated them. The working class has been forgotten by the elites, or rather, as seen in the case of the US, defined as “deplorables,” to use Hillary Clinton’s term, to be replaced in the Great Replacement.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/18/the-working-classes-are-a-volcano-waiting-to-erupt/