Fuck the braindead notion that we can say "Fuck the white working class."

[RBInMaine]

34. You don't know what you are talking about, and here is why.

No, we can't win all of them back, but we can win some of them back and maybe many of them. Look at the data. In a head to head contest all the data show Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump significantly. He most likely would have, mainly because he had a strong, clear, compelling populist economic message that resonated with rural people. I have had plenty of white working class people and even Republicans say they would have voted for Sanders but voted for Trump because they could not tolerate Clinton (much as I supported her and know how much better she would have been).

Next, Obama won many of these voters we lost in this election in the rural small town areas on the economic message. Clinton was flawed, and the clear compelling economic message just wasn't there. She was more about "anti Trump" than a good economic message.

Um, I am FROM the working class and damn well understand it. I grew up in it. I interact with rural working class people all the time, live in a rural area, and have seen just exactly how folks have changed in the rural sections of my state. They are in economic DESPAIR and they are rightfully ANGRY. We did not talk to them. Trump did.

If you don't see that this party is FAILING to speak to large sections of the country that used to support us, and that we can do so again, then your head is buried in the deepest conceivable sand that exists on the planet Earth.