He is as much for "law and order" as anyone else.. What now seems certain to assure Humphrey's defeat is his loss on the very issue of his natural constituencies among the working class and the assimilated ethnic minorities.
But the fact that the contemporary British working class is far from uniformly white and post-industrial is difficult to crowbar into this narrative, and by reinforcing that outdated image of the working class, we obscure its significant non-white constituency.
He had distanced himself from the Islamic establishment and the discredited, mostly middle-class reformers of the Khatami era, building a third constituency among the working classes, younger voters and the less well-off.
He portrays Ahmadinejad as an "anti-status-quo candidate" who has built "a third constituency among the working classes, younger voters and the less well-off".
Until her retirement in 1931 she worked relentlessly for the working class of her constituency, serving on numerous committees concerned with health and welfare services - leading campaigns for free school milk, children's play parks, municipal wash houses and the city's first family planning clinic.
The working class, the natural constituency of the Communist Party, had to grow rapidly.
A complementary narrative was unfolding, as both Obama and Clinton spoke more and more to and about the working class Americans who had once been the constituency of the now-forgotten John Edwards of North Carolina.
Still, progressives hoping that a heavy dose of populism will be enough to win back the working class must not be under the illusion that the Trump constituency was motivated solely by economics.
Her lucrative speechifying made her an unlikely tribune for the working class, once the party's core constituency.
The problem for the progressives is that their traditional constituency has not followed suit, but has been attracted by the appeals of the new populist right, which, in response to its success in the working class, has gradually been shifting its position from its original nationalist neoliberalism towards welfare chauvinism and welfare populism.
