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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)I don't see it in polling. I don't see it anecdotally. I don't see it in the many "meet the Trump voters" stories in the media.
And the contradiction isn't just that Trump is a billionaire scumbag. It's that he fully embraced trickle-down economics. He promised to cut regulations and taxes on corporations "bigly". He said wages were too high. He's virulently anti-union.
No, people didn't vote for Trump because they thought the Dems were on the side of corporations against them. That's a description of Jill Stein voters, not Trump voters.
We actually did win lower-income voters, by the way. And with the exception of white lower-income voters, we won by huge margins. I'm not advocating a strategy of going around telling people they are racist. But at the same time, trying to pretend that a lot of Trump voters aren't motivated by racism is contrary to reality, and fantasy is not the basis for good political strategy.
I also disagree that we are becoming a party that takes the side of the rich against the poor. The quote you are looking for, by the way, is "the struggling, the striving, and the successful." But don't just look at the rhetoric, look at the policies promoted by the Obama administration.