2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]PatsFan87
(368 posts)to help us win in large numbers or else we'd have won the election. If we had enough enthusiastic people, we wouldn't have been hemorrhaging house seats since 2010. I think a lot of people are making the mistake of painting Trump voters with a broad brush. Are there racist, sexist, violent scum who support Trump? Obviously yes. Are there struggling, hurting, desperate, perhaps misguided people who voted for him as well? Yes. Shouldn't it be our job to guide them back to us? As we saw with Obama, little can be accomplished without filibuster proof majorities in Congress. We don't even have a majority in the house or senate right now. We've lost governorships and state seats as well. And now Democrats want to push more people away? It seems illogical to me. We need to be opening the door not closing it.