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Dems risk culture war fight in Charlottesville response
The Associated Press ^ | August 18, 2017 | Bill Barrow

Posted on 08/18/2017 7:25:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s widely criticized response to white supremacist violence in Virginia has left Democrats in a quandary: how to seize the moral high ground without getting sucked into a politically perilous culture war.

Democrats have denounced Trump for blaming “both sides” for deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, more recently, for defending Confederate monuments.

But the party faces a complex task: While addressing race and history in ways that reflect the party’s values, Democrats also need to focus on issues like jobs and the economy that resonate with a wider range of voters, including white independents, ahead of the 2018 midterm election.....

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Virginia; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; democrats; trump; virginia
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1 posted on 08/18/2017 7:25:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

DUH!


2 posted on 08/18/2017 7:26:33 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“risk culture war”

Risk? They want it.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 7:28:06 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrat convention news June 28, 1924:


 

 

many other articles: https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/convention/from19240624to19240709/allresults/27/

4 posted on 08/18/2017 7:29:37 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dems don’t care about hard-working, tax-paying Americans. The problem is how many on the Republican side also don’t care.


5 posted on 08/18/2017 7:31:31 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They will be on the losing side, people said to let the statues stand by nearly 3:1. Most people are more intolerant of violent leftist extremists than peaceful alt right extremists.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 7:32:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there a single terrorist group the Dems have not loved?


7 posted on 08/18/2017 7:35:41 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dems already chose their side. So did a lot of Pubbie RINOs.

“Terrorism for justice!”

Antifa is now the front group for the Dem Party.


8 posted on 08/18/2017 7:35:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t they apologise for opposing the abolition of slavery and Founding the KKK. And why doesn’t Trump tweet this info every hour on the hour.


9 posted on 08/18/2017 7:38:25 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LET’S GET IT ON!!


10 posted on 08/18/2017 7:39:33 PM PDT by raiderboy (All leftist terrorist are"Anti- Trump"!! let the smear begin. They are all "ANTI TRUMP")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yep a leftist pollster had it at 62% oppose removing them and that was with a 10% democrat over sampling vs republican of people who responded to the poll.

Rasmussen also had similar results.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 7:40:19 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Limbaugh said today that we may already be in a civil war. Pretty strong language from him.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 7:41:39 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ask Robespierre where revolutions end.


13 posted on 08/18/2017 7:58:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, the Dems are still basically F-ed.

Very soon to be doubled F-ed as their ignorant fool branch tries to topple every statue and monument in the nation and their brown shirt branch ratchets up massive street violence.

All this amounts to gigantic overreach that’s NOT going to play wall in Peoria, and yet it will be nearly impossible for the Dems to condemn any of this.

In other words, live by identity politics, die by identity politics.


14 posted on 08/18/2017 8:09:57 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It needs to pressed long and hard everywhere that The Racist Democrats are the party that installed the statues and now are trying to erase their racist past by removing them


15 posted on 08/18/2017 8:12:02 PM PDT by databoss
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pray for my relative. Has gone to ‘the dark side’ and has joined Antifa. His parents are distraught.


16 posted on 08/18/2017 8:31:26 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Sasparilla

Especially since he has people in Washington talking to him and keeping him up on what is going on.


17 posted on 08/18/2017 8:36:41 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All they’re trying to prove by overplaying their hand is demonstrate that they ARE true Dimocratz!


18 posted on 08/18/2017 8:54:28 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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Democrats also need to focus on issues like jobs and the economy that resonate with a wider range of voters

Why worry about jobs and the economy? To democrat voters, jobs come from government, just like welfare dollars. Creating them is just a question of passing a law that says they exist.

19 posted on 08/19/2017 3:18:37 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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I’d like to see Trump really piss them off by posting a two-column history of the last 25 years with all the riots and other violent acts by White Supremacists in one column and those committed by the Left in the other column....


20 posted on 08/19/2017 4:11:21 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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