Democrats organize to fight back

[Odin]

(06-14-2017, 08:39 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-14-2017, 06:07 AM)Odin Wrote: Trump's original base in the primaries seems to have been the type of people that 35 years ago would have been called "Reagan Democrats", working class white people who vote Republican because of social issues, racism, and xenophobia, as well as Neo-Confederates.

To the degree that the above is more correct than a liberal straw-man, we can hope some people at least will be willing to grow up.  You can't forget that there are some who sincerely and intensely believe in small government, low taxes and large armies.  Still, your liberal description of the unraveling memes are deplorable reasons to destroy the country and the planet.  At least Trump is taking the Reagan unraveling pattern to and beyond any point of responsibility and feasibility.  Once he gets finished with the unraveling memes, will they have any credibility left?

You have to hope not.  If he demolishes the credibility of the Reagan unraveling memes, there will be room for a true regeneracy and/or grey champion.

A lot of these people are actually OK with government spending and welfare, as long as it is only for white Christians. All too often I see a sort of left-wing MAGA among my fellow progressives based on New Deal nostalgia, forgetting that a lot of the support of the New Deal "national liberal" consensus only lasted as long as the benefits primarily went to white men (this is a big reason so many PoC were turned off by many of Sanders' vocal supporters). When minorities and women started demanding their fair share a lot of those white men turned against the "national liberal" welfare state.