As 'Working Class Revolt' Topples KY's Trump-Backed Governor, a Warning to McConnell: 'You're Next"

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Wednesday, November 06, 2019
by Common Dreams
As 'Working Class Revolt' Topples Kentucky's Trump-Backed Governor, a Warning to McConnell: 'You're Next'
"Kentucky Democrats did not win by launching esoteric attacks on Bevin. They did it by staying lightning focused on the way that Bevin had hurt working class families."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer

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Judd Legum, author of the Popular Information newsletter, said Beshear's apparent win demonstrates that "Democrats can win statewide in Kentucky."

"Mitch McConnell is in danger of losing his seat next year," Legum tweeted.

A chorus Twitter users echoed Legum and sent a clear message to McConnell, who is even more unpopular in Kentucky than Bevin: "You're next."

As the Washington Post reported, Beshear's declaration of victory "left Republicans stumbling and increasingly uncertain about their own political fates next year tied to an embattled and unpopular president."

"Many allies of President Trump rushed to explain away the poor performance of incumbent Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin as an anomaly," according to the Post, "while other GOP veterans expressed alarm about the party's failure in a state where Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016—and where he just campaigned this week."

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Maybe, just maybe the repugs might start realizing that their hateful policies against the ...

avg. man and woman on the street is hurting their party (remember according to the repugs, party is always first, people are always last!). And just maybe rump himself and his hateful policies too, are hurting the party.

Many allies rushing to explain the loss away? Kind of hard to explain it away when you just had your a&& stomped by a 30% reversal in 2 years from the scumbag party to the democratic party.

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Whoa, a Kentucky reporter on MSNBC right now just said that Trump’s visit may have energized Democratic voters and help cost the GOP incumbent the election.

[Caliman73]

2. They can't and they won't.

Conservatives believe wholeheartedly in a hierarchy that is based on race, gender, religion, and wealth status. They are the the direct lineage of people who believed in monarchical hierarchy except they think that wealth through business is what denotes "worthiness". Their policies are all driven by that fundamental belief. Conservatives think that the use of any government authority to equalize opportunity is "fundamentally unnatural" and will result in the destruction of society. They talk about small government but that is a lie. They want government to function as a gate keeper, to instill the social values that protect the status quo and maintain their dominance.

One main thing about conservative policy making v. liberal policy making is that when liberals make policy, they tend to study a problem, make plans to resolve that problem, then test. If the policy fails to adequately resolve the problem, liberals go back and tinker with it, or throw it out and start the process again. Conservatives never believe that it is the policy that is the failure but the personalities or the failure to correctly implement the policies. Their pat answer to their failures and losses is, "They weren't really conservative enough", which is what they said about Bush Jr. and what they will say about Trump.

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3. Working class revolt? But, but, but . . .

All the major media outlets have been telling us that working class folks just lo-o-o-o-ve Donald Trump, what with his promises made and promises kept, and how he's stopped Obamacare from killing every last American citizen, and how he's protected all Americans everywhere except those that got mowed down in gun massacres (but they probably deserved it for pissing off overeager Trump supporters with their provocative insistence on existing). How could Trump have failed so miserably and publicly?

I like how, in his victory speech, Beshear mentioned registering more voters and taking steps to protect worker pensions. Just two of many items that Democrats can tick off for working class people that Republicans just plain won't do.