The answer isn't centrism, they write, it's respect for where working-class voters are coming from. Their message is that the Democratic Party would be making a huge mistake if it keeps catering to social justice warriors and fails to understand, respect and appeal to working-class voters. "The path heavily favors the party that wins working-class voters," the report explains. The lesson, they argue, isn't that working-class voters are unreachable. The researchers took issues that weren't top priorities for working-class voters and poll-tested new messages framed around working-class values.