Author: Batya Ungar-Sargon
-
PERSPECTIVE: How the establishment abandoned the working class
In an editorial published one month after Donald Trump’s surprise election win in 2016, the New York Times lamented the “breakdown of a shared public reality built upon widely accepted facts.” Waxing nostalgic for the days when everyone, on the Left and the Right, would tune in every night to watch Walter Cronkite deliver the…