Over the last couple months I’ve thought long and hard about what type of democratic ticket is supportable. What kind of ticket could I goto another working class person and say, this ticket is definitely the lesser evil. Attacking the Republicans, or Trump, right now is not helping, as nobody but the outer party can be convinced to support HRC.
First thing we need to understand, Trump isn’t worse than an establishment republican for the working class voter, he’s a huge improvement. We need to first understand that for most people in the United States today, their is worse things to be than a racist or misogynist… like a cannibal, a warmonger, or a neo-liberalist. We need perspective, or no attack will stick.
Most people in the working class are not racists or mysogonists, they like Trump despite those ugly parts about him… yes they are not actually responding to those parts, I know the media thinks thats what it is, but in 2016 its not white status anxiety.
Attacking Trump along these lines, is a call for a coalition consisting of the center-right and the center. Calling this white status anxiety, shows me many believe they don’t need a coalition of more than public employees and intervention prone neo-liberalists and neo-conservatives.
Or rather, they’d prefer a republican winning to the democratic party becoming a more inclusive party. They see Trump winning as a loss, and a stronger democratic party with the left also a loss. They are going for broke, this is actually their best strategy… but is it yours?
I don’t believe it is, Trump is rising in polls, and i know this will make some laugh….. but he provides hope. Yes the Donald, is the one providing hope… the one with hope almost always wins in our system. To provide hope, we’d need to be a coalition with the left, and many neo-liberalists would be unhappy. This coalition would win, handily, but it won;t be built from the DNC. It would have to forced by the outer party, it would have to be forced by you.