Posted on 10/29/2019 7:48:50 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Talk to Democrats today who live outside her bubble, those who either volunteered endless hours to help elect her or voted for her, and they will tell you that Clinton has no idea why she lost. Worse, they see their party going down the same road that led to her defeat four years ago, blaming white resentment, as well as Russia, the media, sexism and deplorables.
You don't have to look any further than the sound bites from this past week's Democratic debate or the recent town halls. Confiscating guns, banning fracking, hiking taxes, providing free health care to illegal immigrants and stamping out religious liberty were the promises Democrats made to compete for primary votes.
Here is what most of Trump's critics don't understand about why this new conservative populist coalition voted for Trump over not just Clinton but also 17 very qualified, distinguished, mostly establishment Republican candidates in the party's primary battle.
It was never about Trump. It was always about their communities. Trump was the symptom, not the cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
WE WANT TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY!
I would categorize the situation that Democrats have no ability to chat or energize rural areas of the US...their theme is made for urbanized areas. Out of 3,007 counties in America....I doubt if their message and theme works in more than 20-percent. Trump’s ‘vision’ worked in more than 90-percent of US counties in 2016.
Some truth to this but only Trump could pulled this off and only Trump could endure the hell that rains down on you if you challenge the ruling class
Democrats want to take everything away from you and give it to illegals.
That seems to be the gist of their program.
“Trump was the symptom, not the cause.”
More like the cure than the symptom.
The fact that Trump completely took the “flyover country” vote is why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 and why the Democrats turning even further Left politically will hurt them in 2020.
It takes a strong person and those who support him to stand up to the Oligarch Deep State that opposes him and those who like him.
Stand for Trump and decency.
They didn’t miss; but they didn’t hit hard enough.
That’s how Donald Trump got elected!
Salena Zito has done some of the best work analyzing the phenomenon of Trumpism. She is spot-on.
The more they alienate voters, the more desperate they will be to destroy democracy, by vote harvesting, fraud and defiance of the rule of law.
The Never-Trumpers are driven by the fear that the nanny-state which nurtured, entertained, educated and healed them will be destroyed and that they will have to rely on their own wits to survive. Their fear is just as rational as that of a big city accountant being dropped into the wilds of Siberia and told that he or she is on their own. They know that they are incapable of survival.
The Always-Trumpers share an equal and opposite fear: that the nanny-state will prevail and the limited rights that they cling to will be ripped from their fingers. They rightly fear that their freedoms will be lost for generations if they cannot create a firewall against the tide of socialism.
The difference between the two groups is the ability to survive and thrive in a hostile environment. The snowflakes on the left, protected by the media, think that their message of violent protest will prevail. As long as the police (the State) stands idly by while they create mayhem, they think that their cause is righteous and that they just need more violence to succeed. The patriots on the right, having a healthy respect for order even as they create the environment for their own independence and survival, allow the left to block streets and burn their college....for now. There is going to be an accounting, sooner rather than later. I suspect that the right is far better prepared emotionally, financially and socially to defend their rights than the left is to live in a world with less government.
Trump is the catalyst of change. As he has stated on numerous occasions, this is not about HIM. It is about US.
“Salena Zito has done some of the best work analyzing the phenomenon of Trumpism. She is spot-on.”
Except she presumes that Trumps electoral success is (and will be in 2020) voting for the lesser of two evils. People will vote for him next time because he has a record of success and “winning.”
You are correct but the country is almost past the demographic tipping point where flyover America can decide the electoral vote. The 2024 election after the 2020 census will be telling.
“Confiscating guns, banning fracking, hiking taxes, providing free health care to illegal immigrants and stamping out religious liberty...”
IOW’s government-by-college-dorm-bull-session. These are not well thought-out proposals.
As you suggest...without the media talking about it....this is really a hardcore fight to protect over the Census results. Face it...California might be losing three districts...NY state might lose two. Red states are the likely gainers. So you can toss five to seven more votes in 2024...onto the GOP winner.
Each month, I look over the exit numbers out of California, and it looks pretty bad compared against 2010’s census.
Bump
Unless those emigrants go to their new states and turn them blue.
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