Posted on 11/13/2017 12:01:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Democratic Party certainly did well in last week’s elections. In one place after another, voters seemed to reject President Trump’s hateful, lawless politics. The results have further energized progressives for 2018, which will be a vastly more important referendum on Trump than 2017.
But if Democrats are going to succeed next year and beyond, they can’t focus only on last week’s positive signs and start believing their own spin.
The reality is, the Democratic victories occurred almost entirely in areas that had voted for Hillary Clinton last year. In Trump country, Democrats continued to struggle.
Outside of highly educated suburbs and racially diverse cities, Democrats still do not have an effective response to Trumpism. And they need one.
I know that many progressives are tired of hearing about the white working class. They would rather stop obsessing over small-town America and instead pursue a coalition of minorities and highly educated whites, like the coalition that won Virginia last week.
But giving up on the white working class would be a terrible mistake. Whites without four-year college degrees make up fully half of the adult population, and they tend to be dispersed, rather than packed in small geographic areas, which increases their political power.
How can the party can do better? It’s not an easy problem, and I wouldn’t trust anyone who claims otherwise. But the crux of the matter is clear enough: Democrats have to get the white working class to focus on the working-class part of their identity rather than the white part.
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Real conservatism (and as America was founded) is about the individual. The founders called it individual Liberty. The natural God-given right to pursue happiness.
If the democrats win this cultural and constitutional war, our Republic is lost.
“Outside of highly educated suburbs ....”
Absolutely appalling snobbery of those “less educated fools”....
Highly educated suburbs???
It’s more like the highly indoctrinated suburbs.
Imho
“Nel bue dipinto di blu” “Volare”, 1958
Blue on blue - what is the challenge of that?
Those were not even particularly competitive districts, where all the margin of victory came forth.
Ha, ha, ha! The Slimes is lecturing the dems!
No, they’re doing great! It’s Peak Trump! Buyer’s remorse! Confusion and chaos on the Republican side! Impeachment is just around the corner!
“voters seemed to reject President Trump’s hateful, lawless politics...”
None of the candidates who lost actually embraced Trump’s policies. I know the venerable New York Times wouldn’t let that fact get in the way of The Narrative(tm) though.
Democrats are fooled by everything else. Why shouldn’t they be fooled by their recent victories?
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