It shows that the dread and opposition to it has become general at a social level which might remain comparatively unaffected in England, in spite of a perfect unanimity amongst the electoral classes here.
Between 1997 and 2005, Labour lost 4 million votes, a heavy proportion of which were among its traditional working class electoral base.
George's unexpected effectiveness at creating a working class electoral coalition both inspired progressive politicians -- including the 28-year-old Roosevelt -- and helped persuade business elites of the prudence of compromise.
The centre-left can govern a country like Britain only by building a broad, cross-class electoral coalition.
The party leadership has so far remained wedded to the coalition while pressing for a radical change in economic policy that would deliver tax cuts to its lower middle-class electoral base.
Moreover, premature and excessive hawkishness would strengthen the US dollar and sharply increase the US trade deficit, undermining Trump's stated goal of creating jobs and boosting incomes for his blue-collar, working-class electoral base.
"To a very considerable extent," they wrote, "redistribution is the result of electoral systems and the class coalitions they engender".
Unlike members of the upper house, members of the lower house are directly elected and therefore more likely to be swayed by local electoral politics and caste, class and ethnic interests.
Often dismissed as apathetic toward electoral politics, the middle class sometimes seemed to have in effect seceded from the nation — living in private compounds, using private schools and hospitals, and showing little interest in voting — minimizing, when possible, its contact with the state.
Under Neil Kinnock, Labour attempted to widen its electoral support from narrow class divisions.
