>>2807162A good portion of the American working class is not white. In fact, at least half (actually probably over half) of my coworkers have been some variety of racial minority. Beyond that, a lot of the American working class also consists of young people trying to scrounge up enough time and money to get a degree in hopes of moving upwards into the PMC. I've known at least two people who were working three jobs in order to pay for college. The working class in real life does not look as it does on TV.
>>2807220First, you're working to the dumbass logic that there is "an American working class". What defines the working class is its relationship to the means of production, not its allegiance to this or that clique. Our goal is to unite the various factions of the working class, not to pander to your preferred subset of it.
Second, leftists have, in large part, already turned on the democratic party, and did so well before the MAGA crowd did Trump. The fallout of the Gaza genocide resulted in a failure of the democrats to engage with their base that is generally agreed, even amongst pro-Israel bourgeois commentators, to have played a large part in the democrats losing the 2024 election.
Third, the class interests of the MAGA base are generally petite bourgeois and labor-aristocratic. Truckers and small farmers are not interested in communism, they're interested in democratic-socialism at best, fascism the rest of the time. Insofar as they are aware of Marxism, they flatly reject it, and experience shows that attempts to bring them further left has instead dragged whoever is preaching to them further right.
Finally, you're ignoring the much larger, much more politically useful group of people who aren't engaged in mainstream American politics to begin with. Most people, especially those in the working class, have more or less material interests; they want a bigger house, a faster car, more free time, a job that doesn't treat them like shit, etc. They might have some vaguely defined ideology, but it's a secondary factor in their life that they don't actually take all that seriously. These are the people you want to go for, not retarded MAGA cultists.