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reidmill
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« on: March 03, 2017, 05:48:31 PM »

Jon Favreau posed this question to former Bush Communication Director Nicole Wallace, and I thought she gave the best answer I've heard so far:

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I agree 100%, but I don't think a Democrat who meets this description has risen up through the ranks yet. Also, everyone should listen to the Wallace interview here:

https://art19.com/shows/pod-save-america/episodes/d48e6679-da37-4688-88f4-425b278857e1

Do you agree? If not, what kind of Democrat do you think Donald Trump should be most afraid of?
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reidmill
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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2017, 01:59:11 AM »

The Democrats need to stop fetishizing conservative white working class people. How many times are these fundamentally right-wing voters gonna snatch the football away before the left learns their lesson?

The problem with the democrats right now is that forming a coalition of minorities and college educated whites isn't feasible. They have to broaden their base somehow.

Neoliberals like Lief don't want to have the party actually appeal to working people.

The working-class voted against Donald Trump by nearly double digits IIRC. The party does "appeal to working people."

I think you meant white working people. A very large amount of "working people" aren't white. The working class voted against Trump. It was the white working class that voted for him.

The white working class had a huge swing to Trump but minority working class people's needs are being ignored too, and I imagine they swung to Trump by a fair amount, too.

According to exit polls, every ethnicity swung towards Trump this election.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html
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reidmill
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2017, 02:02:52 AM »

The Democrats need to stop fetishizing conservative white working class people. How many times are these fundamentally right-wing voters gonna snatch the football away before the left learns their lesson?

The problem with the democrats right now is that forming a coalition of minorities and college educated whites isn't feasible. They have to broaden their base somehow.

Neoliberals like Lief don't want to have the party actually appeal to working people.

The working-class voted against Donald Trump by nearly double digits IIRC. The party does "appeal to working people."

I think you meant white working people. A very large amount of "working people" aren't white. The working class voted against Trump. It was the white working class that voted for him.

The white working class had a huge swing to Trump but minority working class people's needs are being ignored too, and I imagine they swung to Trump by a fair amount, too.


According to exit polls, every ethnicity swung towards Trump this election.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html

Another notable figure in  there is that people making under $30,000 swung to Trump by 11 points.
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