Fellow DU members please be careful judging Trump supporters

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147. What you say is fair

There are some white Trump supporters that are extremely low-information. I know a few - and hold your fire for one second while I say this - who are actually good-hearted.

It's possible in middle white America today to have a busy or crazy life and ignore news and politics. Then all the information you get is from glimpses of Fox or local news (sometimes Sinclair) or neighbors who spout Fox or right wing radio talking points. They may not know any black people personally and rarely if ever travel to any city, never mind another country.

I'm not making excuses for them. This is a national crisis and everyone should be informing themselves. I'm just saying practically, those are people who CAN be won over if we speak to them.

And I'd even go beyond the super-low-information white voter. I think some white voters are deeply, deeply brainwashed by Fox and Limbaugh, and some of THEM -- not all, but some -- can be reached too.

Not that I think reaching those voters should be the main Dem strategy - the main strategy is getting out the vote, especially amongst minorities and the young (the winning strategy in AL-Sen and VA-Gov in 2017).

But let's not push every single GOP voter out of the Dem tent. Some can be persuaded if we speak about our values to them directly.



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on a related note, I think you're doing good work bringing this place over to the views and interests of minorities. Too long Dems have neglected them, especially during the neoliberal, Third Way decades.