David Brooks: "Can We Please Stop Calling These People Populists?"

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12. I get tired of European labels like "working class" wrongly applied to the US.

What we have are "blue collar" and "white collar" workers. The labels have been in existence for decades, and they need to come back into general use (so-called pink collar is for traditionally female-dominated jobs which tend to be the better jobs but are denigrated because women dominate them).

"Working-class" is a meaningless term when the user really means blue collar.