Booman posted an article today titled Trump Democrats Aren’t Coming Back, Yet.
In it he presented a great deal of statististical evidence supporting the idea that “almost all of the people who voted for Trump would vote for him again.”
He is surprised.
And then he writes:
It matters if these voters aren’t responding negatively to Trump’s first 100 days. We need to figure out why they supported him in the first place but also why more of them haven’t already come to regret or doubt their decision.
The answer is fairly clear. The Democratic Party has so failed these people that they are desperately clinging to the “lesser of two evils” idea that was advanced during the declining days of HRC’s failed campaign as a reason to vote for her. Only now it’s reversed.
Sure, Trump’s numbers indicate a certain lack of confidence in his presidency. But the massive system that supported HRC…the same one that has until very recently incessantly pounded on the Trump regime…is seen by these people as part of the greater evil, the Permanent Government, Deep State, globalist, internationalist corporate evil. Is this a simplistic stance? Yes. What do you expect from a mass of people who have been false-newsed and badly educated by this system for well over 50 years?
Read on for my initial response to Booman’s post.
“We” need to figure out why [the white working class] supported Trump in the first place!!!???
Who “we,” DemMan?
Lord, Booman! It’s really very simple.
They supported Trump because he made them believe that he was going to do something positive for them while Hillary Clinton and the Dems not only basically ignored them but branded people like them as “deplorables.”
What did these see when they tuned into Trump’s rally telecasts?
They saw hours upon hours of cameras panning over images of people just like them cheering and waving “Make America Great Again!” slogans.
Then they saw overpaid mainstream talking heads in expensive haircuts talking about how stupid they were and how intelligent the people who worked for HRC appeared to be. You know…upper middle class, major college-educated twits of all races and sexes.
It’s really not that hard to figure out.
“Racially” based? “Sexually” based? Only on the lower levels of decision. The first level? For almost all voters? It’s “Who’s most like me and who are they supporting?” If there aren’t that many brownish people/aren’t that many professional class working females or males/ aren’t that many people of alternative sexual preferences in their circle of acquaintances or area and a candidate quite clearly aims his campaign against those kinds of people and for people “like” them…who the hell do you expect them to vote for!!!???
Sigh…
You don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is going to be blowing, and you don’t need a statistician, either.
You just need to step out of your societal bubble…and I mean any and every societal bubble…wth your common sense hat on. And then look the fuck around !!!
Add to all of those above factors the utter failure of Obama’s 8 years in terms of helping working white people get out from under the boot of the banks and corporate neglect in terms of bottom line, profit-based outsourcing of industry and jobs plus a Dem candidate who comes off as a haughty, ruling class boss and what do you get?
You get a Trump win.
Duh!!!
It was the failure of the Democratic Party to find a way to appeal to these people’s interests and needs that alienated them, and a further failure on its part to recognize that they were going to come out in large numbers and vote. It wasn’t the Russians; it wasn’t a vast racially-based, reactionary movement against the supposed advance of equality for all people in the U.S., it was simply because these people believed that 8 years of a Democratic president had failed to produce positive results in their lives.
Successfully change that perception…soon…and the Dem Party won’t die. Fail in that attempt and pay the consequences.
Keep going in what is quite clearly the same apparent Schumer/Pelosi-dominated direction and…???
FUGGEDABOUDIT!!!
AG
P.S. I have a gut feeling that we are going to see the same sort of mistake made in France this time around. Le Pen squeaks through and the transatlantic Trump/Brexit reactionary snowball gathers even more steam.
Why?
How?
Paris shooting: Marine Le Pen calls for all French terror suspects to be expelled after Champs Elysees attack.
Watch.
The French white working class is pissed, too.
They’re gonna come out and vote.
Watch.