Biden: "Dems ignored middle class in 2016 campaign"

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119. Lost because of voter suppression & propaganda not Biden's middle class analysis

Failure of Democrats to deal with voter suppression, Republican and in 2016, Russian modern warfare techniques is what has lost elections since 2010.

It is comforting to some to think that the solution to the loss of over 900 Democratic seats in 6-8 years and the loss of "rust belt" states by 100,000 votes is due to failure to message to a now mythic white working class.

One of the major mistakes by self-styled progressives (I say self-styled because progressive has many different definitions) in 2016 is not acknowledging or understanding Russian warfare techniques or their own susceptibility to propaganda, and failure to address Republican propaganda on healthcare over the past six years.

It's possible to win most voters, but focusing mainly presidential politics is akin to building on sand and it produces things like the Scott Walker "miracle" - in 2010 the Democratic Party lost the governorship of Wisconsin to an anti-union regressive Republican. A man who is acknowledged to be a failure at creating jobs-yet he is re-elected. Why?

Did many in the working class vote for Trump because he was going to radically change NAFTA? Well now he is not going to make that change and I predict that his voters won't care--because that was not why they voted for him.

Joseph Biden has jumped on the anti-Russia influence bandwagon forcefully since the election but not during the election. Too little, too late.

Many who consider themselves progressive were, we now know, repeating Russian propaganda deliberately targeting them. Why were they susceptible?

Michael Moore missed the Russian interference totally. Why ? (He too has now jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon).

Clinton, at least raised the alarm on Russia in the presidential debate-but lacked the support of Democrats who were in a position to know better.

I think it is great for some people to focus on a particular segment of the voting population-and backing for example Democratic state legislators in Wisconsin who you think can win is great.

But I think the rest us us need to face the Russian threat and the fact that the Republican Party has become not just anti-Democratic party but an anti-democracy party, which is part of an anti-democracy trend around the world.