Posted on 12/31/2016 9:19:41 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Donald Trump’s White House victory, fueled in part by nativist rhetoric, has exposed schisms over race in the Democratic Party, as minority lawmakers worry the party will abandon its diverse constituency in the hunt to win back working-class whites.
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the former head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and activists who work with both groups cautioned in interviews against turning away from the coalition that helped President Obama win two terms.
“By focusing in on, primarily, the white middle and working class, and by taking for granted the black working class or the black underclass, the party will add an arm and lose a body,” said Representative Bobby Rush, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus from Chicago. “The black vote is the foundation of the Democratic Party and we won’t be taken for granted.”
The Democrats’ internal debate over identity politics, and how much to prioritize issues of race, has been fueled by some prominent congressional Democrats who called on the party to develop a retooled, economics-first message specifically targeting white working-class voters — the group some analysts deemed responsible for Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
“[Clinton] should have won this election by 10 percentage points,” Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont who challenged Clinton in the Democratic primary, said after the general election. “The question is: Why is it that millions of white working-class people who voted for [President] Obama turned their backs on the Democratic Party?”
The data back up Sanders’ point. Compared to Obama in 2012, Clinton fared significantly worse among white voters in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan — and lost all four states. In the latter two states, Clinton received only 42 percent and 36 percent of the white vote, respectively...
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Accurate post.
Middle class American of all races have been ignored.
Because Trump ran on a populist-nationalist platform of non-intervention, less immigration and pro-worker eceonomic policies. Romney ran on the opposite platform — globalist neoconservatism.
It’s unlikely democrats will abandon ID politics; they’ll just double down as they continue adding illegal aliens to the rolls and trying to convert muslims to the liberal mindset. It’s who they are. Their DNA makes them incapable of rising above themselves.
Maybe I missed something, but the above comment applies to the Democrats in general. Aside from Obama and a few in his administration all in power in the Dem. party are White.
Must give credit to the child. When confronted by an aggressive elite he stands his ground and does not break out in tears.... (remembering the child in the supermarket basket who wailed when gazing upon an image of “Bronco Bama”
Oh, yes you will. That is exactly what the Dems have done for the last 50 years and the black "leadership" keep selling their own people down the river for the trinkets they are given.
When blacks elect different leadership, perhaps they won't be taken for granted.
Whatever makes libs fret is OK with me. A bunch of whiny turds!
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