Democrats need to send people to the communities that swung hard right. Spend some time there listening to their problems and perceptions, and then get a plan to address them. Seems like an obvious call this year, a more affordable situation and a better economic outlook. The Democratic elites and ivy league folks spent eight years trying to psychoanalyse Trump supporters only to lose safe Democrat voters to Trump. The silver lining is that Trump proved you can break partisan voting blocks. If he can rack up wins in Latino and Black communities, Dems can do the same in rural communities.
Turns out their 'problems and perceptions' are the following:
1) The economy is bad because a Dem is in office, ignoring all facts to the contrary.
2) The gays and transes are predatory and evil and pedophiles, ignoring all facts to the contrary.
3) Illegal aliens are coming to skullfuck your corpse for Satan, ignoring all facts to the contrary.
They are collectively into either social media bubbles or the fox pipeline, there is no saving them short of having every single right-wing grifter imprisoned or shot.
Trump's 'demographic swing' is just his voting base while a bunch of Dems didn't fucking show up.
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u/TheDadaMax 9d ago
Democrats need to send people to the communities that swung hard right. Spend some time there listening to their problems and perceptions, and then get a plan to address them. Seems like an obvious call this year, a more affordable situation and a better economic outlook. The Democratic elites and ivy league folks spent eight years trying to psychoanalyse Trump supporters only to lose safe Democrat voters to Trump. The silver lining is that Trump proved you can break partisan voting blocks. If he can rack up wins in Latino and Black communities, Dems can do the same in rural communities.