Voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election dropped from 2020 levels. William Barber, co-author of “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy,” says analyzing why is key to understanding the results. He argues that Democrats’ refusal to center economic security and poverty alleviation, and subsequent desertion of the needs of the working poor, helped to doom Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. | Democracy Now!