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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn the end, Trump's base won't care that he colluded with Russia nor obstructed justice.
And that means that the Republicans won't act. In the end, Trump's base does not care about America, does not care about the rule of law, does not care about Russian influence. They only care about preserving/enhancing their racial privilege.
This is why all efforts to "reach out" to them. Address their economic concerns. Pass protectionist laws to re-open their factories. In fact, the entire progressive agenda is simply not going to work on them. You can nominate Bernie. You can nominate Biden. You can nominate anyone you damn well please. No Democrat is going to win over these voters. They only care about maintaining their racial majority. That's it.
The only path forward is build a coalition around these people. Lock them out of power entirely.
madaboutharry
(40,207 posts)What is it?
unblock
(52,196 posts)and that all the others are second class.
Having smoke constantly blown up your butt works, sadly, on many people.
Frankly theyre addicted to it. They cant deal without fox news every day and they really, really hate anything that threatens to take away all that precious smoke that gets blown up theirs butt.
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)They feel entitled to permanent majority status. Are all of them racist? No. Are a majority of them are? Again, probably not, but they want the comfort of being a racial majority.
JI7
(89,247 posts)madaboutharry
(40,207 posts)It must be awful to have so much hate for other people.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)spanone
(135,823 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)The Trumpsters need to be reminded of that often!
unblock
(52,196 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)rallies when they waving the Russian flag and they didn't know it, that's how lost these people are.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The reality is, those sets of issues are distinct, yet connected, and a multiracial coalition can't be built on "pro-business" economic policies. Pro-business economics and a useless fixation with the deficit are always going to create an economy that leaves too many out in the cold, and especially leaves out too many working-class people of color.
It's time to let go of the myth of a great divide between the economic justice and social justice movements. in "the real world", those movements are made up of the same people 85% of the time.
Egalitarianism isn't about appeasing hardcore racists-it's about uniting the majority that could exist.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)As long as money buys influence in our politics, the base will continue to exist, and sometimes thrive, because of the oligarchs.
VOX
(22,976 posts)White nationalists worldwide envision a White Empire stretching from North America, across Northern Europe, and into white, Christian Russia, as asshole Alex Jones refers to it.
Trumps hardcore base LOVES white nationalist dictators. Theyd have no trouble getting rid of undesirables people of color, intellectuals, liberals, anyone who doesnt toe the party line.
Sound familiar? Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Alwaysna
(574 posts)Have a group to blame their failures on they will continue to support anyone fox news tells them to.
Cha
(297,149 posts)prison.