ABSTRACT
Building a mass base means building majoritarian movements. Global research suggests that it takes a relatively small base of activists to win campaigns of non-cooperation with the system. The idea of a majority progressive base—that could support universalizing progressive movements—might seem preposterous in a country that has elected Trump as President. Majoritarian progressive populist and anti-systemic movements—essential foundations of Left-leaning universalizing resistance—look more promising in the wake of intriguing recent polls. This chapter discusses the potential of progressive movements to universalize their struggle to include white workers under great economic stress and anxiety about their place and worth in society. Public opinion can resonate to a well-crafted progressive anti-systemic agenda that presents universal campaigns across issues appealing to large majorities of the population. These liberal public opinion attitudes are obscured not only by Trump's election, but by the dominant Republican Party's successful denigration of "big government" and of concepts of "liberalism" and socialism.
