President Cecil Roberts Jr. of United Mine Workers of America hopes that the The Democrats’ election loss could be the much-needed ‘wake-up’ call the party needs to reach the ‘next generation’.
Roberts was one of many Democrats who were in a long Vanity Fair article Tuesday on the aftermath of the 2024 election, in which President Donald Trump won the popular vote and captured all seven swing states.
Based on the results of Vice President Kamala Harris largely winning voters Roberts warned that he made $100,000 or more and that this could mean that “the era in which Democrats can present themselves as the party of the working class is probably over.”
“Union members voted for the vice president,” Roberts said, “based on what we saw from the polls. But working people didn’t do that.”
A Vanity Fair piece left Democrats struggling after losing again to President Donald Trump. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Kevin Mohatt)
He added, “I’m a Democrat. I’m going to die one, because I’ve been one forever. But here’s the problem. What about the next generation and the next generation?”
The article’s author, James Pogue, described seeing clips of Roberts attacking the wealthy for laying off manufacturing workers from industries such as the mining industry, a sentiment he began to sense among Democrats.
“When you hear a rich person,” Roberts said, “a CEO, a chairman of the board, talk about the patriotism of his company, or the patriotism of his board, understand something: forgive me for what I’m about to say . , but that’s pure nonsense… That’s what that is.”
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United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts warned his party that working people largely did not support Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)
Pogue wrote that many senior Democrats view Roberts and others like him “at least privately” as people “clinging” to “a lost world.” Roberts said these party members struggle to listen to the working class because they don’t interact enough with each other.
“The Democrats have needed a wake-up call for some time now,” he said. “And if anything good comes from this, I hope they listen. Once upon a time everyone listened to me.’
Pogue seemed to agree with this idea, writing that the Democratic Party, once the “home of the outsiders,” has now become defenders of the status quo.
“In an era when 60 percent of Americans believed that our democracy needed major changes, it seemed to many voters as if this coalition represented a prosperous and educated establishment interested in preserving a status quo that many ordinary Americans had come to expect. despise. ,” Pogue wrote.
Democrats have stopped “listening,” Roberts said. (Left: (Photo by Leigh Vogel/WireImage), Circle: (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))
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He added: “The Democrats, by opposing a populist insurgency, had begun to change what seemed like like the American establishment.”
