>Here in the US we seem to be on some kind of precipice.

Aren't working class people in the US just recently choose the most anti-elite candidate possible just because (and fuck the consequences, let it all burn in hell)?

Working class people are understanding that the elite are just a few bad decisions away from their total destruction. And now they WILL make THE OTHERS to understand this.

The people you mentioned aren't working class, they're wealthy but blue-collar, ie petit-bourgeois or local gentry.

Though Americans don't have class consciousness anyway, or if they do it's based on style of consuming and not working.