Maybe disenfranchised whites aren't to blame after all..... a scarier thought.

[LAS14]

One can get one's mind around the idea that people who have lost their place in society might be irrationally angry. But if it's just hate-filled, educated "haves" who voted for him, what do we do about it?

https://www.thenation.com/article/trumpism-its-coming-from-the-suburbs/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Hacked. stolen. period. everything else is a smokescreen.

[LAS14]

2. What? This article?? nt

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4. sure, the election was hacked and stolen, but the people remain.

it's a problem we have to deal with, even they're only 40% of the population.

even if we could win election after election with our genuine majority, we still need to change their minds.

we can't just sit back and watch them become an actual majority.

[LAS14]

7. There's the rub. We gotta really work on effectively getting our message out to the right people.

"we can't just sit back and watch them become an actual majority."

[Bettie]

9. Don't forget the voter suppression

but yes, it was not a legitimate election.

However, there are a lot of suburban white people who need to realize that they are not the only people in this country.

I say this as a white woman though I live in a small, awful, mostly white town, not a suburb per se.

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3. a *lot* of republicans just want lower taxes and don't care about anything else.

in fact, plenty of them will vote for tax cuts that only apply to higher tax brackets than themselves, because, you know, they'll be rich some day and don't want to pay an extra 3.8% on that someday somehow future millions....

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5. There were many Trump signs on lawns of upscale neighborhoods where I live.

The weird thing was, a lot more popped out the day AFTER the election.

[LAS14]

6. Proof that normalization was working. Argghhhh!!!!

[Nitram]

8. Closet racists and xenophobes.