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Showing Original Post only (View all)How can we reach out to Trump voters? [View all]
As I see it, the main issue is that many Trump voters fell for his fantasy of making America great again. That fantasy is based on a vision of the US that never really existed, except, perhaps, in country music videos and revisionist history, but it is an appealing one for conservatives who long for that imagined, but imaginary, past.
And many of these voters know, on a certain level, that they are not doing well, and that their children will do even worse. So when the con man came along with his vision of that perfect past, and promised to bring it back, they believed because they needed to believe.
My view is that Biden and the Democrats must go big. Spend trillions on the Green New Deal, and extended unemployment, and job training, and child tax credits, and student loan forgiveness, and watch the productive economy grow.
The GOP opposed the original New Deal, and the result was Democratic control for many years.
And as we also know, many voted for Trump because he is a racist. Reaching those people might be impossible.
Thoughts?
PS Happy Valentine Day.
Edited to add: Pass a voting rights act to prevent vote suppression.