You can't win elections if you don't grow up and stop hating voters

[Docreed2003]

34. Having grown up in and currently living in red country...

Much of what you say is correct. The majority of Trump voters I know here in TN aren't overtly racist or bigots. These are average people who have been deluded by the 24/7 onslaught of Faux News and the guilt/indoctrination of the church, which in the Bible Belt tends to be evangelical and aligned with the GOP. As a party, we have a choice going forward. We can call anyone who voted for Trump a racist bigot, which will only serve to confirm every single predisposition most of these voters have about the left, or we can try to understand why exactly they voted for Trump in the first place. That being said, there is no doubt a vocal minority of Trump supporters from the alt-right who are viciously racist bigots, but I don't think, at least in my experience, the average Trump voter falls into that category. It's far past time for the leaders of the Democratic Party to get out of DC, stop paying lip service, and actually see what's going on in the worlds of the average American right now. That doesn't mean holding rally's and superficial acknowledgements...it means actually getting your hands dirty and going out and seeing first hand the plights of all Americans. It means understanding the struggles of the rust belt worker who's been out of work for years because of offshoring of jobs while at the same time understanding the struggle
of undocumented workers who are here below the radar, doing work that some wouldn't dare do, because their entire motivation is providing a better life for their children and family. The GOP certainly is not the party of the people, but the Dem party used to be, and still can be, if they are willing to do so.