2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Democrats are not alienating white working class people from the democratic party nor [View all]brush
(57,487 posts)Are people who fall for such obvious dog whistles as putting a white supremacist in charge of his campaign, building a wall, deporting 11 million, and keeping a registry on an entire religion even reachable?
And remember we still got 3 milliomn more votes.
We just have to make a determined effort to stop repug cheating vote suppression, Crosscheck/dumping black and Latino sounding names off voting rolls, not counting thousands of ballot in minority districts, Putin, the rogue FBI chief and on and on.
Add fixing or somehow going around the relic from slavery, the EC and will began recovery.
It won't be easy but those are areas we need to work towards.
Those are the things we need to prioritize. If we do that, catering to fickle non-progressive whites who so easily fall for a racist misognist . . . well, that, IMO should be down the list of priorities as our demographic advantage grows daily.
An all out, sustained effort to stop repug cheating to overcome our demographic advantage should be our focus now as that is how they stole the election.