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Can Democrats Make Nice with the ‘Deplorables’?
National Review ^ | July 14, 2017 | Kay S. Hymowitz

Posted on 07/15/2017 5:00:26 AM PDT by Mafe

Since early June, when voters in Georgia’s sixth congressional district rubbed yet more salt in their 2016 election wounds, Democratic pols and sages have been pondering why, as Ohio congressman Tim Ryan put it, “our brand is worse than Trump.” That’s a low bar, given the president’s nearly subterranean approval ratings, but so far the blue party has mostly been turning to an inside-the-box set of policy and political memes: jobs programs, talk of a mutiny against House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, and better marketing — or, in Ryan’s words, “branding” — of the Democratic message.

What’s missing from this list is the most important — and most challenging — item of all: solving the liberal “deplorable” problem. The white working class that hoisted Donald Trump to an unexpected victory may not always admire the man, but they know that he doesn’t hate “people like me,” in the pollsters’ common formulation. And they have good reason to think that Democrats, particularly coastal and media types, do hate them: Consider Frank Rich’s snide and oft-cited article, “No Sympathy for the Hillbilly.” It’s possible that white working-class voters would back a party filled with people who see them as racists and misogynists, with bad values and worse taste, because they all want to raise taxes on Goldman Sachs executives, but it seems a risky bet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; deplorables; elections; voters
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To: Farmer Dean
Make nice = Manufactured decency.

Please don't bother.

21 posted on 07/15/2017 5:59:04 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Mafe
The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly

They hate you.

Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. They don’t merely feel you are misguided. They don’t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.

You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.

...

How to we respond?

The first step is to end the denial. Open your eyes. See what is happening. Don’t allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that existed only because, at that time, the Left was winning. They hate you. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people who disagree with you on a few policy details. Stop fooling yourself. ...

22 posted on 07/15/2017 6:03:44 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Mafe

If the Democrats do “make good” with the Deplorables, the Deplorables damn sure better watch their backs. And if the Deplorables do believe the Democrats’ lies, they will live to regret it. Democrats are evil, liars, murders, degenerates, perverts, to make a long list short, they have every evil trait that their Father, Satan has. Decent people stay away from Democrats. They may initially be attracted to them, but once they learn how evil they are, they flee.


23 posted on 07/15/2017 6:04:48 AM PDT by sport
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To: Gay State Conservative
And from within "our" own...

Being called a hobbit.

McCain continued reading the article: "The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue and the public will turn en masse against Barack Obama....Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea party hobbits could return to Middle-earth...This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell into GOP nominees. The reality is the debt limit will be raised one way or another."

Gee, all I want the USA to do control its spending like a normal business or person has to.

That made me a Hobbit?

24 posted on 07/15/2017 6:04:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Mafe
The never-Trump National Review. Someone ask them where they're getting their money from. Certainly not from magazine sales or ad revenue.

Is the insufferable, establishment, beta-bitc-of-a-man Lowry still running it into the ground?

They made it exceedingly where they stood during the election. Maybe they'll all go broke and hang themselves.

25 posted on 07/15/2017 6:23:10 AM PDT by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: Mafe
Can Democrats make nice with the 'Deplorables'?

Forget the Democrats, what about the GOP?

I wasn't too happy being called whacko-bird, knuckle dragger, neanderthal, etc....and their actions, and/or lack thereof, since the election haven't been too cool either.

26 posted on 07/15/2017 6:24:50 AM PDT by Roccus ((When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu"))
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m not a crazy Middle Earth fan and haven’t seen any of the movies, but I read the books years ago. I don’t mind being called a “hobbit”.

Hobbits were the ones that wanted to mind their own business, grow crops, and enjoy friends and family. They only got involved because others brought them into the bigger problems, and they mainly tried to keep others minding their own business. They also won through courage, hard work, friendship, and loyalty to others on the side of good. Hobbits are the exact opposite of democrats (who have an insatiable lust for power and control over others and are hard to distinguish from Saruman or Sauron).


27 posted on 07/15/2017 6:25:01 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Mafe

NEVER !


28 posted on 07/15/2017 6:26:24 AM PDT by onona (Stop stonewalling Judicial Watch and release the documents)
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To: Farmer Dean

" Piss on all of them "

Exactly!
29 posted on 07/15/2017 6:34:25 AM PDT by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: COBOL2Java
"They hate you."

Hate them back. It works for me.

The whole assumption that holding the high moral ground will dominate the conflict is in error. The animals have no morals, and consider the whole concept of morality as a sign of weakness.

The solution will be profoundly distasteful, and the Jack Ketch who uses it will never be invited to dinner. It will be the price paid for our freedom.

30 posted on 07/15/2017 6:36:08 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Westbrook

That’s it in a nutshell. These are enemies of human freedom and dignity. They - And their cheerleaders - must be treated as such.


31 posted on 07/15/2017 6:38:06 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: jonascord
The whole assumption that holding the high moral ground will dominate the conflict is in error. The animals have no morals, and consider the whole concept of morality as a sign of weakness.

Exactly. Try holding the "high moral ground" against a rabid animal. Doesn't work.

32 posted on 07/15/2017 6:38:07 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Can Democrats Make Nice with the ‘Deplorables’?”

Not this deplorable!


33 posted on 07/15/2017 7:30:19 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Mafe
better marketing...

That translates into more BS, and more empty phrases, and more hot air, and more TV talking heads. Exactly what many of those who live in New York or LA do for a living.

Maybe the Democrats will realize someday that most Americans care more about what the government does, then what the CNN talking heads have to say.

34 posted on 07/15/2017 7:45:43 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Mafe
National Review ... Kay S. Hymowitz ... "given the president’s nearly subterranean approval ratings" ... Image and video hosting by TinyPic I ain't clickin' that brah.
35 posted on 07/15/2017 7:56:29 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Mafe

No. We will destroy them.


36 posted on 07/15/2017 8:20:43 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: COBOL2Java
"The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly"

Great article. I bookmarked it the first time it was posted here. Should be required reading for every normal American.

37 posted on 07/15/2017 8:36:29 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Mafe

What we call nice democrats call it bait.


38 posted on 07/15/2017 9:14:02 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Ransomed

Yes it will be Harris.


39 posted on 07/15/2017 9:20:24 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Mafe

To answer the question—No, Never!

And I will NEVER make peace with the traitors/racists/abortion-loving/immoral/Christian-hating/femiNazi/taxpayer leeching/Trump deranged/fake sanctimonious/hypocritical @ssholes in the Rat party.


40 posted on 07/15/2017 9:21:02 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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