Icon Re: I don't know about other Americans, and even other country citizens...but..
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Probably not, Mick - although those do exist.  That's a common mistake made by the Dems, and they actually turn off a huge portion of the working class vote when they reduce it that way.   A more realistic reading is that many people who voted for Trump do not like his way of speaking in insults and minimizing minorities.  However, where many on the Left see that as the absolute "no go/worst thing you can possibly do," this group of voters sees that as a bad thing but several rungs down the ladder.  The Dems failure to recognize this has really hurt them.  Likewise, the recent BLM-related violence fed that narrative.  Wouldn't surprise me if the Trumpers planted a few people to start violence at those protests as any window-smashing or similar played right into Trump's hands.  The Dems need to be less reductive and somehow need to convince working people that their policies will be better - and many/most of them WOULD be better.  But that'll be a neat trick.  Difficult after 30 years of talk radio and the like.  The expansion of media options has fed populism, and that's not at all good thing.  If that sounds elitist of me, so be it.

 

 

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