Playbook for a Democratic Comeback (Liberal insanity handbook)

National Journal ^ | 1/4/17 | Kraushhar

[pabianice]

The seeds of Demo­crat­ic re­new­al can be found in the af­flu­ent neigh­bor­hoods of At­lanta and its north­ern sub­urbs, where a quiet protest against Don­ald Trump’s Re­pub­lic­an Party took place on Elec­tion Day. The di­verse, mod­er­ate-minded con­stitu­ents of Health and Hu­man Ser­vices Sec­ret­ary de­sign­ee Tom Price took a markedly dif­fer­ent view of Trump than work­ing-class white voters in the Rust Belt. Mitt Rom­ney car­ried this dis­trict with 61 per­cent of the vote in 2012—a seat that The Al­man­ac of Amer­ic­an Polit­ics dubbed a “safe Re­pub­lic­an dis­trict”—but Trump eked out just a 1-point win over Hil­lary Clin­ton in 2016.

Clin­ton car­ried sub­urb­an At­lanta’s Cobb County by 3 points, a dra­mat­ic 15-point swing from Mitt Rom­ney’s re­sound­ing double-di­git vic­tory in the county four years earli­er. Among the most-af­flu­ent pre­cincts in Fulton County, Clin­ton won by 3 points. Clin­ton even car­ried white voters in the At­lanta met­ro­pol­it­an area by a 1-point mar­gin, a stun­ning turn­around in a state that has his­tor­ic­ally been deeply po­lar­ized along ra­cial lines.

The res­ults from the At­lanta sub­urbs of­fer Demo­crats a play­book for how to com­pete in the fu­ture—win over so­cially lib­er­al, fisc­ally con­ser­vat­ive voters who tra­di­tion­ally lined up with Re­pub­lic­ans. This would pair the di­verse Obama co­ali­tion with voters who have favored free mar­kets and a tough-minded for­eign policy. It would be a throw­back to the cent­rist policies of Bill Clin­ton, along with a full-throated em­brace of a di­ver­si­fy­ing Amer­ica. It would con­cede some of the white work­ing-class gains to Trump, while mak­ing an ag­gress­ive push to bring col­lege-edu­cated sub­urb­an­ites in­to the Demo­crat­ic fold.

[pabianice]

It's ok to laugh.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so.....convince fiscally conservative voters who are squishy on the social stuff to form an alliance with hard-core Bernie Sanders-loving Socialists??

Sounds like a plan. /s

[Blue Jays]

President Trump won a fantastic victory over entrenched Democrats, RINOs, and the media. It was a great campaign and America won!

[Grimmy]

The left just needs to realize they’re simply not radical enough.

They need more radicalness. If they radicalize better, they’ll win!

[Buckeye McFrog]

mak­ing an ag­gress­ive push to bring col­lege-edu­cated sub­urb­an­ites in­to the Demo­crat­ic fold.

translation: Offer to forgive all of their student loans.

I fear that strategy MIGHT be effective for them.

[Popman]

Wow...Atlanta and it’s suburbs are just like flyover country...

Who knew ?

[Grimmy]

In the end, it doesn’t really matter how many idiot sheep they dupe into siding with them.

There’s no way that this ends without bloodshed. The left just ain’t gonna let that happen, no matter what.

So, let the targets self identify.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Clin­ton even car­ried white voters in the At­lanta met­ro­pol­it­an area by a 1-point mar­gin, a stun­ning turn­around in a state that has his­tor­ic­ally been deeply po­lar­ized along ra­cial lines.

So when Clinton carries a white suburban area by 1%, its a sign of racial harmony. When Trump or Romney carry white women by a small %, its a sign that white women are racists.

[LeonardFMason]

Huffing airplane glue works too.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, THAT’S the ticket!..................

[GraceG]

[ a full-throated em­brace of a di­ver­si­fy­ing Amer­ica. ]

America is ALREADY one of the MOST diverse countries in the World, i guess it needs to be even more so... for ... reasons....

These people are so damned dumb, saying water is good for you would have them putting people in the middle of an ocean to drown...

[GraceG]

[HamiltonJay]

Hahahaha yes, the Dems are going to come back by taking GA!

Bwahahahhaa. Seems to me they were claiming Hillary was going to win it this time at one point...

Idiots.

You lost the south decades ago, and now the Midwest is on its way out.. you have nothing left but the north east and the west coast..

You spent 20 years purging anyone who didn’t cow tow radical leftist viewpoints... now you pay the price

[Iron Munro]

Donna Brazile, interim chairwoman of the DNC, has a suggestion on where they can dig up a fair amount of new votes by the 2020 election.

[Bitsy]

YES resounding Victory does smell sweet!!!!!

[Blue Jays]

I have been feeling euphoric since November 8th and really loving it.
The mood will only get more excited and happy as we build towards January 20th.

[Gay State Conservative]

Playbook Point #1

Convince voters in PA,OH,IN,MI,WI,NE,IA,NC and FL that they *are* illiterate,racist,misogynist,homophobic knuckdraggers who would,if they were smart,vote a straight Rat Party ticket every year that's evenly divisible by “2” (but first they'd have to learn what that means).

[El Cid]

Clin­ton car­ried sub­urb­an At­lanta’s Cobb County by 3 points, a dra­mat­ic 15-point swing from Mitt Rom­ney’s re­sound­ing double-di­git vic­tory in the county four years earli­er.

Hmmm.... Wasn't Georgia the first State that noticed that Homeland Security was trying to hack into their election database?
Perhaps there was something nefarious going on with the voting integrity in Georgia...
Hopefully Attorney General Sessions can look into this (as well as looking into the 6X vote counts (vs the actual ballots) for Hillary in some Detroit districts), as well as other voting shenanigans.
It wasn't the Rooskies that were hacking our election in 2016.

[Ouderkirk]

This guy needs to lay off the LSD for a while and come back to reality...

[Behind the Blue Wall]

It’s not really a joke though. It’s a plausible strategy, affluent moderate Republicans nationwide voted for Hillary over Trump. These are the Republicans that the GOPe has been prioritizing over all else for the last three decades, they’re pro-immigration (including illegal), pro-free market (even when we’re getting screwed), neutral on social issues, but they’ve traditionally voted GOP for low taxes and on foreign policy.

The fallacy of the GOP’s traditional focus on this group is that while it’s certainly convenient that their positions generally reflect those of the GOP donor class, they aren’t that numerous. The broad, non-college educated white middle and working class in this country still constitutes a huge proportion of the total, even more so in the battleground states.

But . . . I believe that group will ultimately be swayed by success, and so the extent that Trump is successful in his efforts to bring back manufacturing, squash Islamic terrorism, create law and order, etc., I think they’ll come back into the fold. But it’s not a given.