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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What is the right way to think about Trump voters? [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)56. Didn't say don't engage the Rust Belt voters
We obviously need to focus our efforts in states like PA, WI, and OH which Obama won and we can win. Thinking that just because Obama won those states in the past that they were in the bag for Clinton was the biggest boner campaign move imagineable.
But with such small margins of loss there we'd be better off and more likely to pick up non-voters and younger voters in those states than we are Trump voters. Putting our efforts and focus on young people in those states who can be convinced someone on our side offers them a better future is more likely to yield dividends than focusing on people naive enough to believe that their old manufacturing jobs are going to come back.
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I do NOT forgive them. I suspect the vast majority know exactly what they've done.
NRaleighLiberal
Dec 2016
#2
I'm pissed at them and not likely to be in a forgiving mood toward them in the foreseeable future.
Arkansas Granny
Dec 2016
#8
Talk to one for five minutes I'll bet either "the blacks" "the Mexicans" "the Muslims"
doc03
Dec 2016
#10
yes, that's usually what I go with, but they just don't hear that at all!
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2016
#39
Anger is a waste of emotion. They are going to watch their lives be destroyed and
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2016
#26
Lobby big-pharma to start making more red pills: the blue ones aren't working
Jean-Jacques Roussea
Dec 2016
#27
sorry... I have some relatives who voted for Trump and we are friends on FB
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2016
#34
First, I would feel sorry for all of us that have been dragged into this shit storm because of them!
RKP5637
Dec 2016
#35
that they are people, and as such, stupid. No need to think of them as any worse or better than
JCanete
Dec 2016
#48
My wish is that they reap all that they have sown. I hope they all suffer. Deeply.
Squinch
Dec 2016
#49
that's all fine-- the problem is they ignored all freaking red flags and red lights and danger signs
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2016
#60