I think they are ready for it. I believe Obama was attempting to voice his empathy with their cause during his infamous San Francisco dinner talk.
Hillary Clinton can speak of this group better because she understands their reality. However, she and her husband betrayed this group on their way to Power. Now she is scrambling to lead the charge to repair the damage that their poor stewardship caused. NAFTA was Bill Clinton's attempt to make Republicans approve of him, during a time when it was all negative anti Clinton rhetoric all the time. He really wanted to be accepted into the Club.
In my high school, I remember that class was a much bigger issue for whites than for blacks. Among black kids, we were all pretty much the same class, in comparison to our white peers.
That Club that consisted of all the rich white kids with the big houses, the trust funds, the worry free life.....when the Clintons hit the Presidency, they could hardly believe they had arrived. Their working class roots were part of the reasons why people were attracted to him.
However, while they were climbing to the top, back home things were falling apart. When Bill Clinton was riding around with George Bush Sr. in the airplanes....
Aunt Mary lost her job because of the plant closing, due to the NAFTA policies. Uncle Joe had a heart attack and had no insurance. Grace developed bipolar disorder and had to wait two years for disability payments to start. The cousins started to run wild and got hooked on methamphetamine. They could not afford rehab. Smart cousin Peter had to drop out of college, is working for WalMart now. Grandma lost the family home in a mortgage scam.
Now rich cousin Bill and cousin Hillary have come back home.
Why would white working class people believe a black man with a Harvard degree would be able to understand them? Especially when cousin Bill and cousin Hillary tell them not to trust them?
Obama has to come from a common understanding of oppression. Oppression by class, or oppression because of race both represent a betrayal of the American Dream by the Elite Cabal that has trashed our Constitution,.... this is the reality that white working class people and other people of color who are working class, share.
He needs to talk about bitter again. Only this time, deliberately, in class specific terms. He needs to paint a picture about how his policies will help that class.
He needs to do it FAST.