A commentor on another thread nailed it when he/she said "The problem is that America does not have a Labor Party, because half of labor defected to the GOP over racial issues and the civil rights legislation". I paraphrased, but you get the idea.
In 2016, for the first time in American history, white people voted as an "oppressed/threate…
A commentor on another thread nailed it when he/she said "The problem is that America does not have a Labor Party, because half of labor defected to the GOP over racial issues and the civil rights legislation". I paraphrased, but you get the idea.
In 2016, for the first time in American history, white people voted as an "oppressed/threatened" identity group. Something like 70% of voters in this country are still white, so it made a huge impact. That trend continued in 2024. Even in 2020, when Biden won, his victory margin can be attributed mostly to the ubiquity of mail-in voting and the GOP's complete lack of understanding about how that would impact elections. By 2024, the GOP had adapted. Trump and the GOP relentlessly campaigned to their own voters on the importance of early and mail-in voting, while suppressing that vote in Democrat areas, and the turnout model reverted back to 2016, or worse.
With the mail-vote relatively equalized, people now vote by race and culture, not by class and income solidarity. Trump wins the spectrum of white voters, from the trailer park trash to the billionaires, plus a not insignificant number of hispanics who want to fit-in or "pass". Democrats have only the white professional class, coastal elites, and minority/marginalized groups. That's a lot, but it's not enough to overcome the shift in white-identity voting.
Good luck trying to appeal to the economic interests of the white working class. They lie, or are not self-aware about their priorities. They have demonstrated for years now that they will not vote for the "Party of Other", even if that party is campaigning on giving them a hand(out).
Since November, it seems that Democrats are doing everything in their power to avoid facing the central issue. Abandon "Other", or lose these voters for the foreseeable future.
A commentor on another thread nailed it when he/she said "The problem is that America does not have a Labor Party, because half of labor defected to the GOP over racial issues and the civil rights legislation". I paraphrased, but you get the idea.
In 2016, for the first time in American history, white people voted as an "oppressed/threatened" identity group. Something like 70% of voters in this country are still white, so it made a huge impact. That trend continued in 2024. Even in 2020, when Biden won, his victory margin can be attributed mostly to the ubiquity of mail-in voting and the GOP's complete lack of understanding about how that would impact elections. By 2024, the GOP had adapted. Trump and the GOP relentlessly campaigned to their own voters on the importance of early and mail-in voting, while suppressing that vote in Democrat areas, and the turnout model reverted back to 2016, or worse.
With the mail-vote relatively equalized, people now vote by race and culture, not by class and income solidarity. Trump wins the spectrum of white voters, from the trailer park trash to the billionaires, plus a not insignificant number of hispanics who want to fit-in or "pass". Democrats have only the white professional class, coastal elites, and minority/marginalized groups. That's a lot, but it's not enough to overcome the shift in white-identity voting.
Good luck trying to appeal to the economic interests of the white working class. They lie, or are not self-aware about their priorities. They have demonstrated for years now that they will not vote for the "Party of Other", even if that party is campaigning on giving them a hand(out).
Since November, it seems that Democrats are doing everything in their power to avoid facing the central issue. Abandon "Other", or lose these voters for the foreseeable future.