Democrats' war on the working class is starting to bite

Now these left-behind voters have caught on, giving Democrats one heck of a black eye in terms of electability. Guy Benson of Townhall reports, citing this:

Despite the Trump turmoil in Washington, Republicans held a 10-point lead on the generic ballot (43-33 percent) among these blue-collar voters. Democrats hold a whopping 61 percent disapproval rating among these voters, with only 32 percent approving. Even Trump’s job-approval rating is a respectable 52 percent with the demographic in these swing districts.

It just happened to coincide with another report out, from Jed Graham of Investor's Business Daily, that the working class has been getting uniquely slammed by the Nightmare of Obamacare, with all its fines, larded up useless mandates, sky-high deductibles, and exploding exchanges. Graham writes:

While ObamaCare has been a big help to the near-poor and those with major medical needs, it gives a bad deal to nearly everyone else.

The amazing thing here is that we aren't seeing what's to be expected from working-class and socialist dynamics, where workers vote for socialists for all the free stuff and ignore the opportunity costs. We are instead seeing a working class that is wise to the Obamsters, that knows what their contempt is, and that is willing to punish them at the ballot box.

Republicans had better not disappoint these people. It's time to scrap Obamacare now, if for nothing else to protect the working class.

Here are the first three paragraph, same title:

Republicans have problems, but nothing quite matches the damage the Democrats have done to themselves with their unstated but real war on the working class. A recent poll shows that Republicans have a 35-point polling edge over non-college-educated whites in blue-collar swing districts.

In other words, blue-collar workers are on to the Democrats, who over the course of eight long years have had ample opportunity to demonstrate their contempt, both policy-wise and in “deplorables”-type statements, for these voters. They haven’t even tried to hide it.

Instead, they have celebrated their new coalition of rich urban hipsters, African-Americans, college students, twenty-somethings, the welfare class, legal and illegal immigrants, crony capitalists, the comfortable ‘burbs, and the super-rich as all they needed to ever win elections again. Everyone else was irrelevant.

Democrats once again have mistaken their sloganeering for received wisdom. "But we're the Party Of The Little Guy," I hear them bleating despite the clear evidence that the Little Guy no longer thinks so. They could find out why by asking. And they don't ask.

Maddening. Clearly the working class doesn't think that increased government involvement in every facet of life is in their interest, and the Dems insist it's because the working class is simply too stupid to "understand" what their true interests are. But just as clearly "The government should be in charge of everything and we should be in charge of the government and you'll be happy" has proven a steaming pile every time it's been foisted on a long-suffering working class, and 0bamacare was the turd that broke the cart.

High deductibles mean no coverage if they're more than you've got. Is this difficult? And federal penalties that take money from your tax refund (that you shouldn't be depending on but are) don't help matters at all. And free treatment for street people with self-inflicted medical issues isn't as attractive if it means you have to sell your car to put a cast on your kid's broken arm.

There is more, naturally. How it escapes the political geniuses that drive party policy that jobs are very important to the *Working* class and that environmental and social policies that threaten them are disproportionately detrimental is something so mysterious it leaves the observer shaking his head in dismay. Hillary said quite bluntly and callously that she was glad the coal miners were out of work, an attitude that was certainly not unique to her but was party-wide, words that resounded like a lead cannonball clunking down the basement stairs. You can't walk that sort of thing back. You've lost them.

Yes, the Republicans are missing a golden opportunity to seal working class support on two accounts: healthcare and job protection, which brings in illegal immigration as well. Trump knows this. And the establishment fools within his own party who are resisting him so desperately are turning that advantage back over to the first Dem populist who figures it out and can make the right promises. Which won't be kept. But then, are the Republicans keeping theirs?

As long as we can pull the GOP Presidency and keep it in the populist camp, it will work out.

I am not now nor have I ever been a Republican, yet I consider myself more of one than President Trump. IMO, the only reason he has an R after his name is because the fix was in for Clinton's coronation, the GOP wanted a foil for Jeb! and the state Republican parties wanted his money for admission to their primaries. I also do not consider him to be in the "populist camp" but rather in the "American camp"....something lacking in politicians from both ~~criminal organizations~~ parties.

Were it NOT for the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, I would not have gone to the poll last Nov. for the first time in 50 years.

Wow! 50 years?! It is like a reverse of what Obama did. Obama got all the young voters who never voted; Trump got the older voters that gave up.

Yeah, the populist angle is based on the fact that I think he will sign anything Congress will put before him just to “get it done” (like healthcare). Could be wrong. I didn't mean it as a slight, seeing the term as more a neutral one.

He, as you say, has given us a lot of red meat, despite the obstructionism of the Republican Congress.

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