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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Its a tragic mistake to dismiss anti-establishment voters as deplorable [View all]MineralMan
(146,317 posts)people who would have voted for Bernie Sanders, had he been the Democratic Party's nominee. Trump appealed to the disgruntled and dissatisfied, yes, but they're not the people who were dissatisfied in the same way as Sanders supporters were.
They will not vote for progressive candidates in the future, either. They are not the audience we need to reach. Instead, we need to reach dissatisfied and disgruntled voters who did not vote at all in the 2016 election. Those are the people we need on our side, not people who would vote for a Donald Trump.
Bernie's wrong on this. If we attempt to go after Trump voters, we will fail again and again. Instead, we need to go after those who did not vote and get them to vote to help themselves. Trump voters are pissed off, it's true, but they're not pissed off about the same things we are, frankly.
We need to stop wasting our time on people who will never vote for progressives. We need to concentrate on those who are so discouraged that they didn't vote at all, I believe.