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Why the white working class votes against itself
Washington Post ^ | December 22, 2016 | Catherine Rampell

Posted on 12/24/2016 6:24:59 AM PST by C19fan

Why did all those Economically Anxious™ Trump voters reject policies that would have helped relieve their economic anxiety? Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the “wrong” kinds of people — that is, people unlike themselves. Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss, particularly in traditionally blue strongholds, has led to lots of rumination about what the Democrats must do to reclaim their political territory. Smarter marketing, smoother organization, greater outreach and fresher faces are among the most commonly cited remedies.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; idiotmeda; left; moronmedia; thebluepill
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Another Leftist who thinks she knows what is better for people than the people themselves. Their condescending rhetoric is paving the path for a crushing Trump victory in 2020.
1 posted on 12/24/2016 6:24:59 AM PST by C19fan
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Are you saying “vote for us you morons” isn’t a winning message?


2 posted on 12/24/2016 6:27:40 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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“wrong” kinds of people

Stopped reading after this lil racist shot


3 posted on 12/24/2016 6:28:03 AM PST by italianquaker
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Or if you don’t vote for us you are a racist, homophobic, anti-women monster...


4 posted on 12/24/2016 6:28:25 AM PST by C19fan
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Nancy Pelosi: I don’t think Democrats want a new direction!


5 posted on 12/24/2016 6:29:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (You can't shame liberals because, they don't understand the concept of honor and decency!)
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A White working class person voting for a Globalist Communist Democrat is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.


6 posted on 12/24/2016 6:29:21 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the “wrong” kinds of people — that is, people unlike themselves.

Or - to be more precise - they got tired of watching their own tax dollars get stolen to fund other tribes more mindlessly loyal to the Leftist Chief than themselves.

7 posted on 12/24/2016 6:30:11 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Still clueless. I would suggest the left is intellectually incapable of ever figuring out why Trump won.


8 posted on 12/24/2016 6:30:17 AM PST by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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Democrats: Just go away. Permanently.


9 posted on 12/24/2016 6:30:47 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Smarter marketing, smoother organization, greater outreach and fresher faces are among the most commonly cited remedies.

Translation: Hillary could have won with better lies....

She seems to have no idea that the White working class decided they had an opportunity to actually work for their own benefit instead of all the deadbeat and illegals...

10 posted on 12/24/2016 6:32:17 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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" what the Democrats must do to reclaim their political territory."

The democrats have ALWAYS been the party of the rich.
They were the party of plantation owners who wanted slavery.
They have just been good at lying about who they are and now they just want to come up with a new lie.

11 posted on 12/24/2016 6:32:19 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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Elitism on parade again. The white working class might want to work for what we get, not be handed something we didn’t earn. I guess the Post can’t understand that.


12 posted on 12/24/2016 6:33:28 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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I laughed when an employee from Carrier, who’s job was saved,stated that even though his appreciated President Trump’s efforts ,Voted for Hlillary Rotten Clinton!!!!.Cant make this stuff up!


13 posted on 12/24/2016 6:33:31 AM PST by MGunny
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The reason the RATS lost: the younger dems don't know what a Reagan Trump Democrat is/was, and the older RATs remember only too well.

Older RATs saw their centrist party-members all around them defecting to Trump, young rats did not.

Young RATS controlled the input into ADA, HRC's election model, missing the Trump Democrats (unknown unknowns for them) and let them leave without fight.

Trump then Won, and RATS *cannot* own up to that, for it would be admitting that THEY, themselves, killed the Democrat party.

14 posted on 12/24/2016 6:33:41 AM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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——But there seems to be universal agreement, at least among the Democratic politicians and strategists I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones.——

Did she expect them to say their strategy was wrong?

What a twit...


15 posted on 12/24/2016 6:34:22 AM PST by Popman
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Smarter marketing, smoother organization, greater outreach and fresher faces are among the most commonly cited remedies.

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Wow. Nothing about making the country better, but all strategies to plaster over and sell the corruption and rot.


16 posted on 12/24/2016 6:36:16 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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They still don’t get do they? Seriously doubt if they ever will.


17 posted on 12/24/2016 6:37:11 AM PST by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Eat your peas (and mor chikin).


18 posted on 12/24/2016 6:39:32 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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After actually reading the article, basically people who supported Trump voted against their own best interests because they are racist...

That’s her bottom line...though she never used the word racist...


19 posted on 12/24/2016 6:39:48 AM PST by Popman
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She sarcsically comments that we apparently don’t think that African Americans are “average Americans”.

They aren’t.

The Dems have been treating them differently for the last 50 years in ways far too numerous to list. They are a PROTECTED CLASS,for heaven’s sake. What’s average about that?

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20 posted on 12/24/2016 6:39:55 AM PST by Mears
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