Talk Traditions of the Brahmin Left Talk Traditions of the Brahmin Left Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge. Competing for wages against a rising middle in places like India and China, working Americans, she reveals, have seen their share of national income plummet. The problem for Democrats, Williams explains, is that this anti-elitism works particularly well against them. The rather cringeworthy line about “blue-collar talk traditions” is a significant tell here. Democrats may currently be the better choice, but Republicans are far from the only enemies working Americans face.