2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White Lives Electorally Matter!!! [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)...vs multi-millionaire who made the lions share of their money doing paid speeches and selling books?
I can see it now.
Trump: "I am against all those Chinese people taking our jobs!"
Clinton: "Yet you were a huge proponent of outsourcing jobs. Your whole line of suits are made in Mexico."
Trump: "I used the system and everything my companies did were legal!"
Clinton: "Your companies lobbied to make the unethical stuff your companies did legal."
Trump's populism is fake, completely made up crap. Please, oh please, let him get the nomination. He will be eviscerated. The working people of America, the white working people of America since they're the subject here, will see right through it.
Oh. And let's have a really big talk about tariffs that Trump supports. Let the American people hear about how much that will hike prices for cheap goods. Never underestimate the will of the American consumer.
Trump: "I will put tariffs on Chinese made goods! I'll force their hand!"
Hillary: "Well, I, for one, would not like to see America look like Europe with VAT and extremely high import fees. The problem is companies like your own, who use tax loopholes and lobby the government to cheat the system."
And, yeah, for all the bluster, odds are they'll release a chunk of the speech transcripts (at least all of the ones for the banks). There's nothing there. There's a reason they kept transcripts. The Clinton's are the most highly scrutinized people in politics in history.
What you're not accepting is that the requirement for the white vote share for Republicans grows every cycle. They need 64% of the white vote and 30% of the non-white vote this time around. It's nearly insurmountable, particularly if women shift their vote for personal reasons (and yes, I am of the opinion that people can have whatever reason they want to vote for someone and if a woman votes for Clinton because she's a woman, that is not a terrible and horrible thing; I don't see the problem).