Posted on 06/08/2017 6:48:31 AM PDT by Stopthethreat
Sifting through the wreckage of the 2016 election, Democratic pollsters, strategists and sympathetic academics have reached some unnerving conclusions.
What the autopsy reveals is that Democratic losses among working class voters were not limited to whites; that crucial constituencies within the party see its leaders as alien; and that unity over economic populism may not be able to turn back the conservative tide.
Equally disturbing, winning back former party loyalists who switched to Trump will be tough: these white voters views on immigration and race are in direct conflict with fundamental Democratic tenets.
Some of these post-mortem conclusions are based on polling and focus groups conducted by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA; others are drawn from a collection of 13 essays published by The American Prospect.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Voters democrats have lost are lost for decades... democrats can’t turn this one around in time to save the party.
http://prospect.org/article/democrats%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98working-class-problem%E2%80%99
“Democrats dont have a white working-class problem. They have a working-class problem, which progressives have been reluctant to address honestly or boldly. The fact is that Democrats have lost support with all working-class voters across the electorate, including the Rising American Electorate of minorities, unmarried women, and millennials. “
The death knell for the Democrats was caused by vilifying and ridiculing the middle class. They aren’t coming back, at least in my lifetime.
Central even though the Republican party is not the best, they are far better than a party that puts terrorist, queers and illegals ahead of the US citizens
Central even though the Republican party is not the best, they are far better than a party that puts terrorist, queers and illegals ahead of the US citizens
We need a new party led by Trump. the stupid craven Repugnants can't even get behind the simple thing like the border wall that shows how out of touch they are. They get behind Trump soon or they will lose big time to the DemonParty. count on it.
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