2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A white privileged trump voter told me this [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)In fairness, that person wouldn't have voted for ANY Dem.
But there were nonvoters or minor party voters we could have turned into Dem voters with a somewhat different approach, or with a candidate who hadn't been the subject of a thirty-year hate campaign from the right.
I don't understand why some people here are so invested in denying that economic issues played any significant role at all. It looks to some of us as though the motivation for that is to make sure we don't break with the big donors on Wall Street or adopt any policies that seek to rein in corporate power.
Addressing these issues, such as support for some kind of reindustrialization strategy for the Upper Midwest, wouldn't require us to stop fighting institutional bigotry or even to force us to fight it less.