Posted on 08/18/2017 7:25:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ATLANTA (AP) President Donald Trumps widely criticized response to white supremacist violence in Virginia has left Democrats in a quandary: how to seize the moral high ground without getting sucked into a politically perilous culture war.
Democrats have denounced Trump for blaming both sides for deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, more recently, for defending Confederate monuments.
But the party faces a complex task: While addressing race and history in ways that reflect the partys values, Democrats also need to focus on issues like jobs and the economy that resonate with a wider range of voters, including white independents, ahead of the 2018 midterm election.....
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DUH!
“risk culture war”
Risk? They want it.
many other articles: https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/convention/from19240624to19240709/allresults/27/
Dems don’t care about hard-working, tax-paying Americans. The problem is how many on the Republican side also don’t care.
They will be on the losing side, people said to let the statues stand by nearly 3:1. Most people are more intolerant of violent leftist extremists than peaceful alt right extremists.
Is there a single terrorist group the Dems have not loved?
The Dems already chose their side. So did a lot of Pubbie RINOs.
“Terrorism for justice!”
Antifa is now the front group for the Dem Party.
Why don’t they apologise for opposing the abolition of slavery and Founding the KKK. And why doesn’t Trump tweet this info every hour on the hour.
LET’S GET IT ON!!
Yep a leftist pollster had it at 62% oppose removing them and that was with a 10% democrat over sampling vs republican of people who responded to the poll.
Rasmussen also had similar results.
Limbaugh said today that we may already be in a civil war. Pretty strong language from him.
In other words, the Dems are still basically F-ed.
Very soon to be doubled F-ed as their ignorant fool branch tries to topple every statue and monument in the nation and their brown shirt branch ratchets up massive street violence.
All this amounts to gigantic overreach that’s NOT going to play wall in Peoria, and yet it will be nearly impossible for the Dems to condemn any of this.
In other words, live by identity politics, die by identity politics.
It needs to pressed long and hard everywhere that The Racist Democrats are the party that installed the statues and now are trying to erase their racist past by removing them
Pray for my relative. Has gone to ‘the dark side’ and has joined Antifa. His parents are distraught.
Especially since he has people in Washington talking to him and keeping him up on what is going on.
All they’re trying to prove by overplaying their hand is demonstrate that they ARE true Dimocratz!
Why worry about jobs and the economy? To democrat voters, jobs come from government, just like welfare dollars. Creating them is just a question of passing a law that says they exist.
I’d like to see Trump really piss them off by posting a two-column history of the last 25 years with all the riots and other violent acts by White Supremacists in one column and those committed by the Left in the other column....
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