Posted on 05/16/2018 9:13:44 AM PDT by ethom
Democrats should stop trying to win over white Republican voters, according to several prominent liberal writers.
That was the point of a column Washington Post writer Paul Waldman wrote on Tuesday, which liberal journalists approvingly circulated on social media, adding their agreement.
Waldman blamed Fox News and conservative media for the fact blue-collar Trump voters don’t vote Democrat.
“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,'” Waldman snarked. “If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for [President] Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.”
The problem isn’t Democrats, according to Waldman — it’s that Trump voters are too uninformed to vote for Democrats.
“The right has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to convincing people that liberals disrespect them, plus a political party whose leaders all understand that that idea is key to their political project and so join in the chorus at every opportunity,” he argued.
Waldman advised Democrats to keep in mind “that white Republicans are not going to vote for you anyway, and their votes are no more valuable or virtuous than the votes of any other American.”
The Republican base “seems too dumb to realize that even with Donald Trump rampaging through the White House, ‘the establishment’ is doing just fine, if you define it as the economic elite that so skillfully works the system in Washington no matter how dysfunctional things get,” he argued in an April 18 column. “In fact, the establishment has never had it better.”
Waldman’s latest column dismissing Trump voters was a hit among liberal writers and pundits on social media.
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By all the standard measures, I “should” be a hardcore Leftist Democrat.
I have two grad degrees. I’ve lived in 4 foreign countries. I speak 3 languages. I work for banks. I know these types. I went to school with them. I see plenty of of them at work. I happen to like classical music and watch overwhelmingly documentaries (mostly BBC). I’m not religious.
So am I one of them? Hell no. And I never will be. I would so much rather hang out with normal regular people. They’re a lot less arrogant, a lot less judgmental, and they tend to be both friendlier and happier people from my experience. I’m a Southerner, am proud to be so and feel no need to apologize to anyone for it. I value my right to bear arms and exercise it. I don’t want the government to “protect” me. I ask for nothing by way of services or handouts....but...I DEMAND to be left alone. That’s it. Yes its really that simple. Don’t try to tell me how to live, don’t try to take away my choices, keep taxes at a reasonable level.
The Leftists just can’t manage to do that.
I don’t think it will be a winning strategy even in 20-30 years.
The US is the only country on earth where “hispanic” is considered an ethnic group. The truth is “hispanic” is no more an ethnic group than “American” is an ethnic group. Most “hispanics” in the US are in fact......White. Their rates of intermarriage are 50% in the first generation. Most do actually learn English. Like all previous immigrant waves before them, they will steadily go more and more native over time. Its already happening. Trump garnered more of the “hispanic” vote than Romney did.
They wrote them off over 20 years ago... but the working class whites have finally figured it out
Gosh - if hearing how I am a “White Privileged Racist of the worst kind” over the years hasn’t brought me to them - what more can they do to win me over?
my tagline becomes more valid each day...
Where’s this pinhead been? Obama declared this during his campaign already.
I’ve about had it with Democrats calling Republicans stupid. The Democrats use that word so much, one would think they are just projecting their own intellectual ability.
I have a great idea! Add a literacy test. Don’t let people vote that can’t read at least to a 8th grade level. That will only leave super intelligent liberals to vote and all will be well! Happy happy joy joy!
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