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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's insidious branding that Trump represents the working class and laborers of America, which is something he desperately works to portray himself as. It distracts from the fact he is a white supremacist (a little) and the servant of rich special interests in America that severely hurt the poor. It's a sleight of hand designed to make people vote for him against their own interests.
Like the articles that said Trump was a traitor to his own class.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I would argue Trump is definitely trying to reach the lowest common denominator. That's kind of the definition of populism if I understand it.
Your stereotypical Wal-Mart shopper is also...well, what most people think when they hear "lowest common denominator". Mind you, I don't think the stereotypes are especially true. I'd argue it's a case of "Vocal Minority" or rather, "Visible Minority". The person wandering around in their pajamas will stick out in your mind.
Leviticus 19:34Also considering recent revelations about people being paid to attend Trump rallies (I think it was Shell workers who wouldn’t get their normal overtime unless they attended) it’s far from clear that rally turnout has anything to do with appeal.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOut-of-nowhere question ahead.
When do you think, to the year and presidency, did the Democrat and Republican parties do that "Freaky Friday" Flip? The moment when Republican donors took the party by storm and forsake the minority populations it was initially founded to protect, when the Democrat party decided to abandon the southern white rage-a-holics and find new support in the minority population's untapped potential?
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.My understanding is that they didn’t flip the same year, I’d say that the Civil Rights Act was the year Democrat’s switch while Nixon’s Southern Strategy was when Republicans switched.
But a lot of it was gradual, Northern democrats had been making gains within the Democratic Party for years before they were able to push the Civil Rights Act and the northern business groups of the republicans party have been slowly fleeing the Republican Party for decades now and continue to do so.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAnd assholes like Dinesh D'Souza just LOVE to play the Never Live It Down game, acting as if the Democrats are still the real racist party.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianOne thing to keep in mind is that the shift of the Southern Strategy happened within the lifetimes of some of the oldest sitting Democratic Congressmen and Senators...
So the Democrats aren't not a racist party. But they are certainly the less racist party (and moving towards 'not racist' at a steady pace).
Angry gets shit done.I'd argue that the Democratic Party's Heel–Face Turn started as early as the turn of the last century, because that's when you start getting a distinct brand of Northern Democrat — socially liberal, pro-worker, and rooted in immigrant communities, and a distinct brand of Northern Republican — progressive in a paternalistic, public interest way, meritocratic, and pro-regulation that informed American liberalism. We give the Southern Strategy too much credit for liberalizing the Democrats — they had been heading in that direction since Williams Jennings Bryan.
Conversely, the Republicans stopped being distinctly liberal the moment Reconstruction was destroyed, and if you want a moment where the conservative faction rose to power, it was when Taft took up control of the GOP from Theodore Roosevelt.
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That's irrelevant. The oldest sitting Democrats are people like Patrick Leahy who represent stridently progressive states. You might have very old voters who, by way of laziness or inertia never switched parties, but these people all vote Republican now. A Democrat who acts like a Dixiecrat today would never make it through the primaries.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Aug 19th 2019 at 6:22:33 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."If the Republican party really does crash and burn come the next Democratic presidency, do you think the Whigs will come back?
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I see that you're joking, but in all seriousness, unless the election system is overhauled (and possibly even then), the Libertarian party is likely to be the one to fill the power vacancy.
@Robrecht: Doesn't mean they campaigned with them or even tolerated them, they were just in the same party, something not in those congressmen's control. It seems like you're just trying to find reasons to validate your view of the Democratic Party as racist.
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