Jamelle is a smooth, literate writer pimping for the “D” party. The thrust is how to trick white working class voters into voting for his cause, and how it’s strategically important.
This isn’t about right and wrong, or what’s good for the country. It’s about what’s good for the Dems and for blacks.
Democrats need more bottom feeders.
Because Democrats are the champions of every two-bit loser, pervert, fringe group. But they couldn’t care less about the white, Anglo, working middle class. That’s become patently obvious in the last few decades.
They never stop to consider that yesterday's young people were also more liberal than their elders, and - guess what - they are the more conservative voters of today Mr Bouie is complaining about.
What is this "class" of which this author speaks?
Is it tenth grade? fourth grade?
Is it something fashionable and classy?
Maybe, kinda chic or something?
Oh, wait... must be just plain language used in Marxism.
Democrats need the votes of White men more than Republicans need minorities. That will only increase in the coming generation which has been treated shamefully by the government as they legislate against White men.
Democrats represent the NON-WORKING class. The “white working class” doesn’t aspire to that condition, and therefore see the Democrats policies are threatening.
Even much of the vast white non-working class would prefer to be free. Democrat voters basically fear self-responsibility.
Stupid black racist writes stupid column, liberal media swoon.
Race has nothing to do with anything discussed here, it is all about TRYING To inject race into it.
This is exactly what Sarah Palin was alluding to and has been for a few years now. The working class voter, who was once a solid core of the Democrat base is either abandoning Dems or not voting at all. All the dems seem to want to talk about is minorities and women issues and tend to be forsaking everyone else. How do you think that the average working class person who’s struggling for jobs, feels about amnesty coming down to pipeline where they have to now compete with illegals for what’s left out there on the job market. They may not be Reagan Democrats but they probably are solid dems that feel frustrated and COULD vote in the next Presidential election for a Republican if these Republican leaders would stop trying to emulate Democrats with this “me too attitude”. No more liberal republican nominees! We need a conservative populist and populist isn’t a dirty word if its done right because looking back at history, Reagan was a conservative with populist themes spread throughout his campaigns, he was the one that said you can’t be for big government, big taxes, big bureaucracy and be for the little guy!
The comments at the site are most amusing. Sort by oldest first.
The GOP won 60% of the white vote in 2014 and won heavily.
If the GOP can ever find a way to get 70% of the white vote, they will win it going away for the next 20-30 years.
This article just points out how clueless the Left is. Occam’s Razor is never a concept they can accept. The white working class, you know, the plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc have figured out something. They have figured out that when the economy grows, they do well. When business, the white middle classes’ employer, and for the tradesmen, their customers, do well, they do well. Under Democrats, the rich trust funders do well on Wall Street, but the rest of us do not, except for those employed by government. Under Reaganomics, actual business’ that makes things do well, thus everybody who works does well.
The Democrat message is that they are the Party of Blacks, Communists, and Homosexuals; practice identity politics to discriminate against whites; and specialize in proving free stuff to non working voters at the expense of working voters. And they wonder why they have lost the white, working class vote?
Well, a guy named Gruber just confirmed the suspicions of the Democrat Agenda against them demonstrating one of the reasons why of a lot of White Working-Class Voters are leaving the Democrat Party.
Now we just need another smarmy, mouthy member of Jamelle Bouie’s community to spill the beans and tell the truth about another key part of the Democrats Agenda against them - as if Ferguson was not enough to send the message.
Christ, hundreds of blathering words to make the same, old tired argument: They’re racists!
Because dey be racis!
I undertand the author wanted to focus on economics and it’s a pretty good article despite his repeated insistence that white working class people are all a bunch of racists.
But there are many other issues that have chased voters away from the Dems, abortion, their boosterism of homosexuality, their seeming hatred FOR these white workers - those “bitter clingers”.
These are important issues. As I said to my kid once: no, I wouldn’t go work for Planned Parenthood, even if they offered me a million dollars a year.
It ain’t always all about money.
The Dems can only win these voters by lying to them or voting for them.
Both tried and true strategies.