Why Democrats can’t win the ‘respect’ of Trump voters

The Sacremento Bee ^ | May 17, 2018 | Paul Waldman, The Washington Post

[2ndDivisionVet]

In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.” If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.

The assumption is that if Democrats simply choose to deploy this powerful tool of respect, then minds will be changed and votes will follow. This belief, widespread though it may be, is stunningly naive. It ignores decades of history and everything about our current political environment. There’s almost nothing more foolish Democrats could do than follow that advice.

Before we proceed, let me be clear about what I’m not saying. I’m not saying that the desire for respect isn’t real. As a voter says in “The Great Revolt,” a new book by conservative journalist Salena Zito and Republican operative Brad Todd, “One of the things I really don’t get about the Democratic Party or the news media is the lack of respect they give to people who work hard all of their lives to get themselves out of the hole.”

Nor am I saying there aren’t some liberals who express elitist ideas, because there are.

But the mistake is to ignore where the belief in Democratic disrespect actually comes from and to assume that Democrats have it in their power to banish it....

[TBP]

Nobody should have any respect for Democrats.

[Jmouse007]

Because they are COMMUNISTS who HATE America, HATE law-abiding American citizens, HATE Christians, HATE monogamous traditional marriage, RACISTS who HATE white people, especially white males, HATE traditional American values... etc.

While LOVING ILLEGAL ALIEN LAWBREAKERS, MURDERING unborn babies by the MILLIONS and SELLING these poor innocents body parts FOR PROFIT, BORDERLESS GLOBALIZATION, illicit drug use, perverts and perversion of every possible stripe, race baiting, unlimited, uncontrolled government, unlimited taxation of anything and everything, Islam, foreign and domestic terrorists (as long as they are Muslims or communist leftists ala Antifa), lawlessness, the ultimate destruction of America... etc (the list is endless).

Is it any wonder we don't "respect" DEMONcRATS?

[Chode]

RATS fail to understand that respect is EARNED... NOT won!!!

[right way right]

Why would anyone respect insanity?
That’s insane.

[sergeantdave]

“Why Democrats can’t win the ‘respect’ of Trump voters”

Doesn’t matter what leftist rats think of Trump voters. What matters is that rat commies don’t own battle rifles, and even if they did, the rats couldn’t hit a watermelon if the muzzle was plunged into the watermelon’s largest circumference and locked down with C-clamps.