The revenge of people of color and #MeToo
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If the GOP loses even a few percentage points of support among white women, it is done as a political force. As the GOP has become more misogynistic, women who vote for it but are otherwise not in thrall to a male-dominated system are beginning to realize that they derive no benefit from their fealty to the party. The long-awaited joining of the various sisterhoods may be happening. The supreme irony will be that this all began with the accusations against Harvey Weinstein, mega-donor to the Democratic Party. Democrats immediately and vociferously condemned him. The response from Republicans to their own malefactors has been noticeably different, and women are noticing.
That's one leg of the revenge against Trump. The other is, obviously, people of color, specifically African Americans, specifically African American women. Doug Jones would not be in the Senate without them. They have established themselves, in spite of what your average Bernie Bro would posit, as the very backbone of the Democratic Party. If it seems as if they are voting as if their lives depend on it, it's because they are. This new dynamic bodes well for states like Texas, where millions of African Americans and Latinos who are eligible to vote aren't registered to do so. The task of the Democratic Party is to get those people registered and committed to vote.
Even with typical midterm voter models, Democrats are ahead by an average of 11 points. I think this is undercounting the coming tsunami. I don't believe that these models are taking adequate measure of the sheer fury from people of color and the MeToo movement. They missed it in Alabama. They missed it in Virginia. They have missed it in the 30+ local seats which Democrats have flipped from deep red to blue. Revolutions aren't measured in polling. They come over a political system as if a thunderclap from God. Watch this space: Something is happening.
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I like this part..."The task of the Democratic Party is to get those people registered and committed to vote." That is a Fact. What it does not mean is we have to beg, grovel, cajole, stroke, handhold and and then lead to 'water' moment for their vote. They are not two year olds. I have read this here..."Democrats need to excite people to vote"...kinda sounds like a promise them anything move. Sorry. If these "voters are so unaware what is happening around them, so indifferent to the fact that you will sit out the vote for some bullshite purist ideal...then we all lose.
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and then African American Men are the true base of the Democratic Party!
Thank Goodness for them.. they've been there for the Democratic Party by GOTV.. they don't Play.
The other is, obviously, people of color, specifically African Americans, specifically African American women. Doug Jones would not be in the Senate without them. They have established themselves, in spite of what your average Bernie Bro would posit, as the very backbone of the Democratic Party. If it seems as if they are voting as if their lives depend on it, it's because they are. This new dynamic bodes well for states like Texas, where millions of African Americans and Latinos who are eligible to vote aren't registered to do so. The task of the Democratic Party is to get those people registered and committed to vote.
Mahalo, she
I believe that it's been happening under the radar. It's why republicans are so desperate to hold on to the power that they currently have. They see it coming too. Roll tide!
YES YES YES!
