"Read Settlers" is a meme, but it's also a true meme. You should read it, or read other things about this thesis regarding the white working class in the US (I've heard other Marxists have since improved on Sakai's thesis but I don't know who they are).
White Americans are doubling down on the racism. As white settler colonialism is starting to face just a little bit of opposition (like teaching kids that maybe the US isn't a perfect, God-blessed country), they are losing their minds over the idea of losing even a tiny bit of their privileges. This is still a perfectly material explanation. White folks have enjoyed an incredible level of privilege since the beginning of this country and they will fight viciously to keep all of it.
IMO the bulk of white Americans are a lost cause. Not to say white folks can't be revolutionary (I'm white), but I think we probably should be spending our very limited time and resources on folks outside the imperial core break from western imperialism, and focus on the oppressed within the core. Any white Americans who want to join in are welcome but any concession to white supremacy is unacceptable.
Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying the Dems lost because racism or whatever. I don't care if the Dems win or lose, it doesn't matter. My point is much more about using electoral results and the campaigns that precede them to see where winds are blowing. It seems that "CRT" and fear-mongering about crime (and thus the need to fund even more cops) was a very effective message in appealing to large segments of the population - particularly the white population.
Do you really think the bulk of the folks bitching about CRT aren’t educated? The scary thing is that they are. They are the elite. The financial advisors. The real estate agents. The jet ski dealers.
College educated.
I agree, but I think you are taking the opposite meaning from Vanjones, they are not saying those jet-ski dealers are the people to reachout to, or that the CRT bitchers aren't educated, they are clearly talking about the entire rest of that 70% who are NOT those groups. Their initial point is expressing this exactly, that there are more whites than just those specific demographics. Responding to that by saying we shouldn't appeal to that specific demographic is doing exactly what they warned about; conflating reaching out to workers who are white, with reaching out to GOP base voters