The rise of Donald Trump has focused attention on America’s white working classes: their fears, pains and aspirations. For nearly half a century, however, few public figures have given those feelings more eloquent voice than Bruce Springsteen, the Jersey-born poet-rocker who gained international fame in the twilight of postwar U.S. prosperity. What lessons does Springsteen’s deeply humane vision hold for us today, as we stare down the twin threats of homegrown fascism and an intolerable status quo?