When Bernie Sanders looks at the Democrats today, he sees a party that has abandoned the working class. One that has prioritised social issues while ignoring festering economic concerns.

“I think the Democrats fail to understand the extent of pain that working families are experiencing, and offer an agenda that addresses that reality,” the Vermont senator, 83, told The Sunday Times last week.

Five months after the Democrats lost the presidential election, it’s a message being espoused everywhere from the left wing to the right — where President Trump and his allies have heralded the Republicans’ coronation as the party of the working class.

And Democrats of all stripes, from Sanders — a democratic socialist — to moderates, believe that winning back working people is