Posted on 05/02/2018 6:59:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Why did working-class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?
With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 presidential race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign.
One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working class fell for Mr. Trump's economic populism.
A competing explanation -- which got a boost this week from a study published by the National Academy of Sciences -- dismisses economic hardship and blames it on whites' fear of losing status to blacks and immigrants. They were attracted to Mr. Trump's form of identity politics: bigotry.
If Democrats accept the bigotry explanation, they may be more inclined to foster their own identity politics of women, blacks and Latinos. And they'll be less inclined to come up with credible solutions to widening inequality and growing economic insecurity.
Yet the truth isn't found in one explanation or the other. It's in the interplay between the two.
Mr. Trump isn't the cause of what's happened to America. He's the consequence -- the product of years of stagnant wages and big money's corruption of our democracy.
If they really want to stop Mr. Trump and prevent future Trumps, Democrats will need to address these causes of Mr. Trump's rise.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Robert Bernard Reich is an American political commentator, professor, and author. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997. He was a member of President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.
It wasn't working-class voters who chose Obama.
The death panel advocate.
tl;dr: MOAR SOCIALISM, MOAR RACE HATRED, MOAR PUSSY HATS! DOUBLE DOWN! DOUBLE DOWN!
I hope they listen to this moron.
“the product of years of stagnant wages and big money’s corruption of our democracy”
So, Reich admits Obama was failure.
They did not. She lost.
Why did working-class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?
Translation: “Death to America!”
I have had it up to my naval with that guy
Try not to put up a lying, sick, drunken psychopath to beat him. But I can’t imagine who that would be considering people from Cory Booker to Bernie Sanders.
Sucks when you can’t punch above your height, doesn’t it Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-UH?
Stand up Bobby! Oh, sorry. You are standing up. LOL.
That’s it—just keep calling all white people racists and push for more socialism.
He is a sawed off, half-assed, died in the wool socialist.
I think the dems should take what Reich has to say here as gospel - run with it!
Interesting how someone who thinks he’s got all the answers can be so clueless.
I think the Democrats would be better served trying to determine how to prevent future Clintons.
I don't know, why did you work for him? Oh.. I see you are projecting Bill Clinton character on to Trump.
Because the alternative was voting for a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac who committed unthinkable crimes, subverted the republic, committed sedition and treason, ran her own shadow government for personal gain, sold her office as SOS for hundreds of millions through phony "charities," enabled her serial rapist husband to avoid prosecution, and is the whiniest bitch sore loser America has ever known. That's why.
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