Former quant and current writer Chris Arnade likes to divide the country into two groups: the front row kids (the elites) and the back row kids (the working class). I have for a long time pressed Chris to tell me what exactly it is that the back row kids want from democrats and from the front row kids and really all I can get out of him is… respect. Is it rhetoric that the back row kids want? More specifically, if you’re talking about promising the sky to former manufacturing towns and bringing back American manufacturing then the back row kids should have been all over John Edwards. If all that back row kids want is empty rhetoric that suggests they are more respected, then don’t complain about economic policies.

Source: Forbes April 17, 2017 00:00 UTC