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In reply to the discussion: Democrats need to stop believing this myth about Trump's base. Hint it's the culture, stupid [View all]aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)3. That's one basket...and then there's the other basket.
Sure, the hard core Trumpian base are deplorables.
It is that other basket that we can and should win over.
I know these aren't two discrete categories and they probably blur together at some point.
"I know there are only 60 days left to make our case -- and don't get complacent, don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he's done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
"But the other basket -- and I know this because I see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
"But the other basket -- and I know this because I see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
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Democrats need to stop believing this myth about Trump's base. Hint it's the culture, stupid [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
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In a million years I can not imagine my mom and dad wearing shirts like that...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#8
EMBRACE Progessive (very socially liberal and medium socialist) economics and social policies.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#14
We should do most of those things because they are the rights to do.
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#21
Leave Trumpanzees in our dust. USA is progressive, liberal & Democratic absent gerrymander & vote su
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#22
that's pretty much a "duh", but there is still a bigger "duh" if that study didn't blame talk radio
certainot
Apr 2018
#15
Julian Zeliger's summation is not the first I've read with the same thesis.
BobTheSubgenius
Apr 2018
#17
There is a lot of assumption in saying that to only win over these voters would be to
JCanete
Apr 2018
#18
If we turn out our core constituents we don't even need one of their votes
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2018
#20