Middle-class factions, not proletarian workers, filled the front ranks of antipolitical protest.

Evidence

Public discourse often vaguely and condescendingly identifies “losers” of globalization or modernization as the social base of populist mobilization. Many commentators no doubt have in mind laid-off or embattled industrial workers like Didier Eribon’s father. But if we look at the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as paradigmatic examples of rightand left-wing antipolitics respectively, it remains striking that historically proletarian strata did not occupy the front ranks of protest, or at least not visibly. What stands out are the different middle-class factions. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 188

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The anti-busing movement mobilized white suburban middle-class moderates, not just ideologues. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 68