It wasn't strange that Todd Gitlin lived ("Todd Gitlin, a Voice and Critic of the New Left, Dies at 79, " New York Times, February 5, 2022) only a few miles from my home in the Berkshires just across the border in Hillsdale, New York. Gitlin was supremely right in focusing on economic issues in his writings and rightly observed that it were those issues, the bread and butter ones, that lost so many in the US heartland and beyond with whom the left were natural allies.