Will the parties switch economically?

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I am GENUINELY WEIRDED OUT that Republican Senators are criticizing Biden for strikebreaking. While I applaud that members of both parties are paying attention to workers' rights, it seems unusual that high-ranking Republicans would be more pro-union than the highest-ranking Democrat in the country.

What do you think about the UAW situation?

I support the auto workers striking. I also think it is a return to normalcy regarding political alignments with union voters. Working-class voters are going to remain solidly Democratic for the foreseeable future.

I certainly hope so. The notion of a realignment that would make Democrats the fiscally conservative and socially liberal party and Republicans as the socially conservative pseudo-populist "workers" party is depressing as hell and would make me politically homeless as I'd have trouble voting for either of those two options, even as a lesser evil choice.

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GOP winning the middle 50% of the income distribution while Dems win the bottom and top 25% in a populiberal vs liberaltarian alignment doesn’t really involve this.

Would be trippy to see Dems win small business owners on top of big corporate interests in a full economic realignment though.

yeah, the very fact that Democrats do win the bottom 25% IMO is an argument that there's only so far Democrats can go in terms of being liberaltarian.