The Democratic Party served workers without ever being a workers’ party

Evidence

Although the Democratic Party’s relationship to these forces was always serpentine and stepmotherly, they helped ensure that it remained a “party of workers” without ever becoming a “workers’ party.” — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 131

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes a ‘party of workers’ (electorally rooted in labor) from a ‘workers’ party’ (organizationally controlled by labor) — a precise analytical distinction.
• XREF: connects to: The Democratic Party functions as a state department, not a real party — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 324; The US is the only advanced democracy without a Labor Party — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 584; US parties were never mass parties but functioned as such via civil associations. (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Democratic Party functions as a state department, not a real party — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 324; The US is the only advanced democracy without a Labor Party — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 584; US parties were never mass parties but functioned as such via civil associations. (+1 more)