Telling Deplorables Hes Betraying Them Wont Work

[DemocratSinceBirth]

In the temporary unity fostered by “the resistance” to Trump and a Republican-dominated Congress, Democrats have engaged in much side-talk about which voters to target in 2018 and beyond. It may not matter much now, but as Ron Brownstein notes, it will matter a lot going into 2020, when a single presidential nominee’s strategy and vision will determine the face and voice of the Democratic Party.

Though Trump’s agenda has unified Democrats in near-term opposition, clear fault lines have quickly emerged about the party’s long-term strategy to regain power. On one side are those—largely affiliated with Senator Bernie Sanders—arguing for a biting message of economic populism, which is intended largely to recapture working-class white voters that stampeded to Trump in 2016. On the other are party strategists who want Democrats to offer a more centrist economic message, aimed primarily at reassuring white-collar suburbanites drawn to the party mostly around cultural issues.
While this long-simmering argument arouses all sorts of discussion about whether Democrats have betrayed white working class voters by pursuing Wall Street money or upper-income voters, there are some hard, cold facts that present big challenges to any reconquista project aimed at that demographic. Frank Rich bluntly described the problem with Trump’s white working class base voters over a month ago:


They will stick with him even though the numbers say that they will take a bigger financial hit than Clinton voters under the Republican health-care plan. As Trump himself has said, in a rare instance of accuracy, they won’t waver even if he stands in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoots somebody.
Recent polling has shown that Rich was not exaggerating. Despite the many missteps and flip-flops and examples of sheer floundering incompetence committed by the Trump administration in its first 100 days, only four percent of Trump voters would reconsider their support for the mogul, according to an ABC/Washington Post survey. Trump voters also see the media differently: “critical media scrutiny of him and his administration also is a sign that he’s doing something right — that he’s on their side, and the news media is the enemy,” as Greg Sargent puts it.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/telling-trump-fans-hes-betraying-them-wont-work.html

They hate us more than they love themselves.

[LonePirate]

1. Short of a massive, jobs intensive New Deal type of bill, these voters are a lost cause.

Quite a bit (but not all) of the bigotry within the deplorables is economic based. Other people are blamed for their economic situation so the bigotry comes naturally for them. Providing jobs or some sense of economic security to these people will win some of them back. Others are a lost cause permanently.

[geek tragedy]

2. they can be discouraged from voting--we don't need to get them to sour on Tr*mp but we can do our

best to convince them to stay home, that voting isn't worth it, that no one is looking out for them.

The fewer WWCers that vote, the better off the entire planet will be.

Democrats should definitely focus anti-vote suppression efforts on measures that disproportionately hurt minorities. Those that tend to suppress WWC voters, phuckem.

[world wide wally]

3. Screw them

Just make damn sure we get out to vote EVERY time we can.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Problem with these "Trump supporters sticking with him" polls

I'm thinking there is a hidden statistic. Fewer people may be willing to admit they voted for him.

[Sunlei]

5. republicans try to pretend they didn't call for unconstitutional religious ban with shirts like that