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Headlines marking the passing of Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ are a window into the past, when for a brief moment during the 2008 presidential campaign he became a well-known face in debates over economic policy that Nicole Hemmer argues have been feeding a right-wing myth for decades. ....
ILLUSTRATION BY AESTHETIC APPARATUS/MICHAEL BYZEWSKI “We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden, beginning a string of reversals for Donald Trump and pointing toward a future quite different than the one Hawley had probably imagined when he posted. Hawley arrived in the Senate two years into the Trump era, and since then has pitched an agenda built around the concerns of the common man and woman. Sympathizing with cultural grievances, as Hawley does in fighting internet pornography, is something at which Republicans have been skilled for decades. Addressing the economic disadvantages of the less-well-off has been a blind spot. While Hawley himself has resisted mandatory increases in the minimum wage, his political world has been heating up recently, and it is changing his politics. When he announ ....