Bernie Sanders says the left has lost the working class. Has it forgotten how to speak to them?

Donald Trump was elected US president this week. Despite vastly outspending her opponent and drafting a galaxy of celebrities to her cause – Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Taylor Swift – Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College, the popular vote and all the swing states. This has bewildered and dismayed liberals – and much of the mainstream media.

In the aftermath, progressive Senator Bernie Sanders the Democratic Party machine. It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. He continued: Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Harris ran a campaign straight out of the centrist political playbook. Sanders observed that the who live pay cheque to pay cheque weren’t convinced by it. She sought to dampen social divisions rather than accentuate them.

She spoke of harmony, kindness and future prosperity, of rather than poverty and suffering. Her speeches often repeated rhetoric like “laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class”. This was unlikely to endear her to those for whom social mobility appears impossible.

Words of blood and thunder resonated Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, , saying: [Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created mill.