2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My head is spinning [View all]guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)threatening to leave the Democratic Party if Ellison is picked as Chair of the DNC.
I feel that we should try to understand why Trump voters chose Trump. And white females also voted for Trump in surprisingly (to me) large numbers so this is not as simple as a male voter bad/female voter good situation. It IS obviously a white situation.
And this attempt to understand does not mean the Democratic Party should change its core principles, it means we must attempt to reframe the political dialogue in the country. A right wing dominant dialogue is the current default setting for the corporate media that dominates the discussion.
And while making our analyses, we must also keep in mind the tiny little issues such as voter suppression, Kris Kobach's successful attempt to scrub voting lists nationwide, the Russian hacking, election machine irregularities, Comey's interference, and other things like that.
And even after all of the above-mentioned problems, Trump only received the votes of approximately 24% of registered voters. Something that I feel is not mentioned enough in all the discussion.