The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites.

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64. It's one thing to say Dems have a messaging problem (w/ the corporate media partly to blame).

For instance, as I wrote elsewhere, in Obama's statement on Weinstein, he said, "Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status." He should have followed that statement with something like, "Be that person a movie director or sitting President of the United States, he must face consequences for his deplorable actions." We all know damn well that Republicans would not miss an opportunity like that. And it's not even a matter of taking the high road. It's a matter of being the forceful, fact-based opposition we all need the Democratic Party to be.

Just as one example.

But any suggestion that a substantial number of people voted for Trump due to his economic policy proposals (or because of their economic anxiety) is ridiculous. "It's the bigotry, stupid!" Bigotry, particularly racism, is the tie that binds. It's the only thing keeping the Republican Party viable. Trump can fail to accomplish virtually every one of his campaign promises, or even shoot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight, and not lose a supporter (both his ceiling and his floor is in the 30s, in terms of approval rating). The one thing that would cause his base to wither is him doing a 180 on civil rights (support of BLM, path to citizenship, etc.).