>The Democratic Party needs to take a good look at itself.
>Yes, racist white folks are always gonna klan but the
>Democratic Party made some big mistakes that they cannot shift
>blame for. They ignored many many signs to get to this point.
>All the primaries the polls were wrong... yet no one could
>entertain that wasn't a fluke. People were willfully blind
>taking trump as a joke even though Hillary Clinton has
>literally been the most polarizing democrat of our time for
>several decades. She was a hated First Lady, a hated senator,
>a once failed democratic nominee and a hated state department
>head. She has been scandal plegded for years. Yet, they ran
>her ANYWAY!
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>Folks relished alienating Bernie Bros and telling them to shut
>up and concede. It turns out they where the canary in the cage
>for general disaffection with the party establishment on both
>sides. The democratic base and Clinton deigned to incorporate
>the most energized part of the electorate and used a strategy
>that could be summed up by "you need us idiot, fall in line
>and shut up stupid." Turns out that doesn't work and "Not
>trump" is just not a transformational message. Barack won on
>transformation not competency. Trump won on transformation not
>competency. No sitting president has won purely on competency.
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>I said in other posts, there are white folks who would never
>go to a trump rally or hang trump signs in their yard but they
>would silently vote for him. I work with several of them. I
>watch how they fell silent when people made jokes about trump
>being racist . I heard how they talked about the police
>shootings as "sticky situations" and how people should just
>"obey the law." I heard their comments about Muslims as
>terrorist. I'm not as shocked as I wish I was.
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>There were glaring problems with Hillary's record on issues
>important to white folks beside minority control, like trade,
>banking regulations and jobs. Idiots convinced themselves that
>vast amounts of white folks wouldn't be activated by racism,
>even though they classically have been in droves, and that she
>could also be weak on the issues most important to them... the
>economy, trade and jobs at the same time! You can't do both!
>That's where she lost a lot of whites that should have been
>easily In her column. He won college educated white folks by
>way too large a margin to just call this an issue of billy bob
>in trailer parks. Anyone with basic common sense could tell
>her campaign lip service on those issues was just not
>supported by her actions for 20 years.
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>The dems need to understand you can't shove a candidate down
>people's throats because you think you're so much smarter than
>the rest of the world and expect people to love you for it. A
>failure of imagination led the Democratic Party to cling to
>the establishment when all the signs called for
>transformation. Give people someone they can bee excited
>about. Learn from the mistakes made here.
>Run a winner next time.
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