white wingers - despite all their privilege - who believe they are being discriminated against. You know, the ones who were not accepted to Harvard or something.

It's the racism, stupid.

Catholic ?

nt

whomever most closely represents their worldview. We all do.
Getting our worldview voters to the polls should be a primary target.
We are not going to separate those whose power comes from their belonging to a cadre until they recognize a failing in that cadre.
Even then, they will blame that failing on others and stick to their guns convinced they made the right choice of allegiance.
It will take a deep reflection of advanced introspection for them to give up the falsehood that gave them their righteousness.
We should spend less energy on that endeavor and work hard to nourish the rest of us.

I have not believed that shit about economic anxiety being the prime mover since observing my very well-off neighbors hang an unbelievably huge banner off their second story for trump’s first term.

and if water is wet.

Sadly, some people require someone to hate.

Jump on it social scientists.

Just look at RW programming. It is a white nationalist message 24/7.

should ALL be going ALL out to forget about the racist Trumphumpers, and concentrate on the getting all the minorities registered to vote, and to vote.......
They also need to get someone great who wants to organize and most importantly be a LEADER of efforts, and tell the dem politicians, who are choosing to sit on the sidelines.......come along or get primaried.

People and their motivations are generally more complex than that. Some, perhaps most, Trump supporters are racist or, at the very least, harbor racial prejudice.

At the same time, they can also have anxiety about the economy. For many of them, they either didn't have the resources or necessary qualities or desire to attend college or university, and now they're being left behind in an increasingly service-driven economy. They may end up having the last laugh as AI more fully integrates itself into the economy. Like an open casket funeral, remains to be seen.

At the end of the day, the takeaway for the Democratic Party should be that even if we address the economic anxiety, it won't matter much. We might pull some of Trump's voters from the GOP, but we won't get enough to matter. We'd have to compromise on values that are integral to who we are.

It just isn't worth it. There's zero sense in giving up who we are and what we value for that kind of measly gain. You don't sell your soul for a bag of Doritos.

Too bad it’s behind a paywall. I have Apple News+ so I was able to read it. Unfortunately I am not able to share it.

What really leapt out for me was the following:

“In my opinion, millions of potential voters stayed away from the polls because they didn’t believe that Democratic centrism represents a genuine and progressive alternative,” he said in a follow-up email. “If that’s true, then trying again — with an even more centrist approach — is a recipe for yet another failure.”

Of how our government works and how specific policies affect their lives. They know far too little about history and the global political/economic system. They get their views from TV, and increasingly from social media and friends with the same extremely flawed manipulative sources.

If the majority of voters understood how the specific policies of the two parties actually impacted their own economic self interest and well being, the Party of Trump would lose badly at the polls.

A representative democracy succeeds only when the electorate is well informed and engaged.

American voters as a whole fall far short of that mark.

Not exactly a news flash.

Not every MAGA is racist, but all racists are MAGA.

(The original, circa 1860’s, was that not all
Conservatives are necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are Conservative.)

or they are SUPPORTING A PARTY that is all of those things and more

THEY ALL SUCK

This explains how Trump was able to expand his support outside of the traditional Klan base.

And this administration is fighting mighty hard.

Get up stand up!