The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-09-2020, 01:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Try to convince me that the election of Donald Trump wasn't a freak. 

Not really a freak.  The Republicans had been demonizing Clinton for years.  We all know about the Russian efforts.  The deplorable remark was deplorable.  You don't rub it in the face of voters you need.  The FBI announcing investigation of the emails just before the election resowed doubts.  The Republican establishment had well earned the distrust of their base, and Trump told them what they wanted to hear.  Trump enabled and gathered the racist crowd.

There were a lot of little factors that contributed to the great mistake.  They added up to four years of Trump.  The consolation prize is that he has totally made ugly the Republican establishment and the old values.  If LBJ collected the black votes, and Nixon the racist votes, and there were more racists than minorities, thus triggering the collapse of the progressive era and the dominance for a time of the conservatives, I don't see the racist vote being dominant over the minority and worker votes any more.

This wasn't an accident, but it is an opening to solve problems again, an opening for equality, democracy and human rights.  I just hope the Democrats don't botch it.