The Nation’s Michelle Goldberg explains the Republican elites new attack on the working poor, how the GOP’s contempt for the working class is becoming more open, the myths Republicans need to tell themselves about the economy to sustain their ideology, will the public become more supportive of the poor and can Democrats embrace a progressive economic agenda.

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