Batya Ungar-Sargon is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek and the author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. Her most-recent book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, looks at the way the working class have been undermined in America, and how they can regain access to the American Dream.
In this episode, I speak with Batya about how and why the American Dream became out of reach for so many working class people, the reality of working class politics, elite disdain for the working class, and the time I moved to a tiny island to live in a tent.
America has turned the working class into second class citizens