"Dear white women: Black women can't save you"

[JHan]

183. This has been tried before, and who was the last Democratic President to get the white vote?

The last Democratic President to get the white vote in some kinda convincing way was Bill Clinton, who shocked Republicans by picking up states they thought they'd own forever in the post-civil rights era. Now *some* progressives shit on Bill Clinton and ignore the challenges he faced with a disgrace like Newt Gingrich, whose determination to completely destroy the social safety net meant shitty legislation on the resolute desk time and time again leaving line-item vetoes the only weapon on hand for a President who didn't control Congress.

but I digress.

There has always been some effort to persuade poor white people that they have more in common with poor black people and poor immigrants than tribalist, corporatist, racist whites. This effort spans over 100 years. Our immigration battles are not new, our race battles are not a modern invention. Trump's base - often wrongly described as working class - is mainly made up of rich and middle class white people, and non-college educated white people yet Trump is sometimes described as being the candidate who put his finger on the pulse of "The People"

And how do you talk to white people alone without race entering it ? Do you just ignore Black Lives Matter for a minute? Immigration? do you ignore your base, hoping they don't notice? How do you convince many white people out there that being white is less important than their working-class status?