What Centering The White Working Class Would Mean For Democrats

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14. Yes. Your last sentence in particular is important.

Only a segment of the working class actually votes for Trump. He does not have the entire working class vote in his pocket. And that segment does so because they're racist. They cannot be won back, certainly not with an economic message. They aren't the reason we lose. It is a fool's errand to chase after them. Trump has them solidly in his corner. He has them along with all the rest of the GOP voters, including a lot of rich elites, the vast majority of whom are racists.

That isn't to say that Dems don't need to strengthen their economic message, but the reason isn't to win back these mythical voters we lost. They were never ours to begin with. The GOP, with Reagan destroyed our middle class. The Dems didn't do that. The vast majority of people in that class still vote Dem the way they always have. It's the same racists who vote GOP who always have. We shift to the right in a misguided attempt to win them, we damage our party.