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Can Democrats Make Nice with the ‘Deplorables’?
National Review ^ | July 14, 2017 | Kay S. Hymowitz

Posted on 07/15/2017 5:00:26 AM PDT by Mafe

Since early June, when voters in Georgia’s sixth congressional district rubbed yet more salt in their 2016 election wounds, Democratic pols and sages have been pondering why, as Ohio congressman Tim Ryan put it, “our brand is worse than Trump.” That’s a low bar, given the president’s nearly subterranean approval ratings, but so far the blue party has mostly been turning to an inside-the-box set of policy and political memes: jobs programs, talk of a mutiny against House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, and better marketing — or, in Ryan’s words, “branding” — of the Democratic message.

What’s missing from this list is the most important — and most challenging — item of all: solving the liberal “deplorable” problem. The white working class that hoisted Donald Trump to an unexpected victory may not always admire the man, but they know that he doesn’t hate “people like me,” in the pollsters’ common formulation. And they have good reason to think that Democrats, particularly coastal and media types, do hate them: Consider Frank Rich’s snide and oft-cited article, “No Sympathy for the Hillbilly.” It’s possible that white working-class voters would back a party filled with people who see them as racists and misogynists, with bad values and worse taste, because they all want to raise taxes on Goldman Sachs executives, but it seems a risky bet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; deplorables; elections; voters
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1 posted on 07/15/2017 5:00:26 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: Mafe

Or maybe the approval polls are wrong?


2 posted on 07/15/2017 5:04:37 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Mafe

Any attempt by the Dems to”make nice” will be immediately seen for what it is.A blatent lie by a pack of liars.Piss on all of them.


3 posted on 07/15/2017 5:05:08 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (anything worth doing is worth overdoing,moderation is for cowards)
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To: Raycpa

Those would be the same polls that said he had no chance even of getting the nomination.


4 posted on 07/15/2017 5:06:01 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Mafe

No.

Any party that ...

* openly boos God at their convention,
* promotes the murder of gestate infants as a valid “choice”,
* tries to normalize neuroses and pyschoses, like homosexuality and gender dysphoria, and shove it down our throats,
* seeks to disarm Americans and render them vulnerable to criminals and tyrants,
* wants to prosecute people for telling the truth about the bloody savage Mohammed,
* divides the country by grievance groups, constructing a byzantine hierarchy of same,
* forces compliance with politically correct speech codes,

... is NOT a party I would want to have ANYTHING to do with.


5 posted on 07/15/2017 5:08:38 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Mafe

Look at the minority turnout for Obama vs. Hillary and especially in the states that flipped for Trump. The dems would be nuts to run anyone but a minority candidate for 2020.

FReegards


6 posted on 07/15/2017 5:18:33 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Mafe

“Our brand is worse than Trump.”

Their brand is finally being seen for the perfidious, psychotic, adolescent and valueless movement that it is, backed by a mainstream media with the same glaring pathology.

IMHO


7 posted on 07/15/2017 5:19:15 AM PDT by ripley (ually to)
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To: Mafe

wtf cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 07/15/2017 5:23:34 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: ripley

“Can Democrats Make Nice with the ‘Deplorables’?..............

Has to be a trick question.


9 posted on 07/15/2017 5:23:38 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Mafe
Call me a deplorable even *once* (or a “redneck”...BillyBob Oct ‘16...or a Klan member...Osama Obama Oct ‘16) and I'm your enemy for life.
10 posted on 07/15/2017 5:28:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: ripley

+1


11 posted on 07/15/2017 5:29:11 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Gay State Conservative

What about “tea bagger”?


12 posted on 07/15/2017 5:29:57 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: Mafe

Perhaps this link will work better.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449483/democrats-deplorables-liberals-struggle-appeal-white-working-class


13 posted on 07/15/2017 5:35:18 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Mafe

Your URL has problems.

Here’s one that works:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449483/democrats-deplorables-liberals-struggle-appeal-white-working-class


14 posted on 07/15/2017 5:36:27 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Mafe

The Dems have always been the party of aristocracy, despite their pandering to the underclass. They have no respect at all for the working class.


15 posted on 07/15/2017 5:36:41 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Farmer Dean

Democrats are equal to ISIS. They are the enemy of all decent people


16 posted on 07/15/2017 5:39:45 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Mafe

https://www.city-journal.org/html/can-democrats-make-nice-deplorables-15313.html

working link to the article


17 posted on 07/15/2017 5:43:14 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mafe

Democrats won’t be allowed to get along. Democrats are to be treated with wrath and scorn. They are not really fit to breathe American Air.


18 posted on 07/15/2017 5:47:23 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Mafe

Can Democrats Make Nice with the ‘Deplorables’?

"Yo yo, man, hey! I'm sorry I called you a Deplorable, OK? I wanna try to make nice now! Yo, can we shake hands?"



19 posted on 07/15/2017 5:51:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
What about “tea bagger”?

The comments that enrage me most are the ones by *top* Rats.Yes,some pig like Joy Bahar might call us "tea baggers" but it's "you didn't build that" by Princess Liawatha,"red neck" by Billy Bob Blythe (late in last year's campaign) and "Klan member" by Osama Obama (also late in last year's campaign) that *prove* what today's Rat Party,the Party of Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers,is all about.

20 posted on 07/15/2017 5:56:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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