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Post-Election Survey: Democrats Can Still Reach Trump Voters
The study by Working America, shared exclusively with The Nation, finds that many Trump voters are up for grabs-but also points to a lack of progressive infrastructure.As Donald Trump’s popularity with white working-class voters became vexingly
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I think the right-wing base for Donald Trump is real. A lot of it is incoherent, but there is a hard right-wing core to it. It is extremely racist and xenophobic. I don’t think it’s nearly at the level that we’ve seen, for example, in Europe, with the rise of genuinely far-right, semi-fascist parties and outright fascist parties, like Golden Dawn in Greece. But Donald Trump represents a sign of things potentially to come if we’re not able to put forward a left-wing alternative.
Two really good points. I've seen too many people try to pretend we can overlook the racism coming from that base, but we can't. It's real and we have to deal with it, in addition to addressing economic concerns.
“liberal brains pickled in the formaldehyde of identity politics,” as Luciana Bohne put it.
In the literal hours after the election when I had to endure "progressives" telling me identity politics (meaning assertion of my blackness and femaleness) cost us the election, I used to get really upset. But now every time someone says this I'm just going to say "no, you can't make me stop, have a blessed day."
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I've heard people say "your party seems to care more about transgendered bathrooms than they do an economic message" which makes 0 sense because you can be focused on more than one issue at a time. The young people, who tend to lean more towards social justice, supported Bernie, not only because of that, but because of his economic message as well.
It amazes me that people think those issues cannot go hand and hand. That you have to give up one to support the other. I admit that after the election I started thinking if those people were right, but I've noticed it mostly comes from people on the right (and people on the left who are privileged) who want to scare the left into giving up the fight for social justice. Fuck them.
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There's a lot the Democratic Party needs to fix before the next election (love of war, love of corporate money, etc.). Fighting for social justice isn't one of those things.
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