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Liberal Writers Say Democrats Should 'Give Up' On Trying to Win Over White Republicans
Daily Caller ^ | 12:41 05/16/2018 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 05/16/2018 9:13:44 AM PDT by ethom

Democrats should stop trying to win over white Republican voters, according to several prominent liberal writers.

That was the point of a column Washington Post writer Paul Waldman wrote on Tuesday, which liberal journalists approvingly circulated on social media, adding their agreement.

Waldman blamed Fox News and conservative media for the fact blue-collar Trump voters don’t vote Democrat.

“In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is ‘respect,'” Waldman snarked. “If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for [President] Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.”

The problem isn’t Democrats, according to Waldman — it’s that Trump voters are too uninformed to vote for Democrats.

“The right has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to convincing people that liberals disrespect them, plus a political party whose leaders all understand that that idea is key to their political project and so join in the chorus at every opportunity,” he argued.

Waldman advised Democrats to keep in mind “that white Republicans are not going to vote for you anyway, and their votes are no more valuable or virtuous than the votes of any other American.”

The Republican base “seems too dumb to realize that even with Donald Trump rampaging through the White House, ‘the establishment’ is doing just fine, if you define it as the economic elite that so skillfully works the system in Washington no matter how dysfunctional things get,” he argued in an April 18 column. “In fact, the establishment has never had it better.”

Waldman’s latest column dismissing Trump voters was a hit among liberal writers and pundits on social media.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: democrats; dems; race; respect; tolerance
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1 posted on 05/16/2018 9:13:44 AM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom

Who wants to go to the Dark Side?


2 posted on 05/16/2018 9:15:34 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ethom

IMPEACH TRUMP NOW!


3 posted on 05/16/2018 9:16:18 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: ethom

There was an attempt?


4 posted on 05/16/2018 9:17:02 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: ethom

With Trump scooping up more blacks, Hispanics, Asians and gays that’s a recipe for disaster for the Democrats.


5 posted on 05/16/2018 9:17:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mass55th

the liberals don’t need to persuade anyone, just give blanket amnesty to everyone and watch the votes roll in!


6 posted on 05/16/2018 9:17:36 AM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom
The problem isn’t Democrats, according to Waldman — it’s that Trump voters are too uninformed to vote for Democrats.

ROTFLMAO

7 posted on 05/16/2018 9:18:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ethom
The right has a gigantic media apparatus

Laughable really. The right has a couple of dinghies that occasionally chart a course slightly to the right of the left’s media armada of aircraft carriers.

8 posted on 05/16/2018 9:20:58 AM PDT by dead
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“The right has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to convincing people that liberals disrespect them"

Right. MSNBC and CNN are actually right wing plants to convince white people that liberals disrespect them.

9 posted on 05/16/2018 9:21:24 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ethom

“The problem isn’t Democrats, according to Waldman — it’s that Trump voters are too uninformed to vote for Democrats. “

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Of course we are,just a bunch of ignorant,uneducated cretins./s

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10 posted on 05/16/2018 9:22:41 AM PDT by Mears
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To: mass55th

My thoughts exactly.

It is one thing to try and convert people who haven’t thought at all about their position and get them to go to the perceived and socially authorized (by the media and entertainment industries) “Moral High Ground” occupied by the Left.

It is quite another to convert to their make believe utopia) people who have given a good deal of thought to their position, and deliberately chosen the position occupied by “haters”, “bigots”, “homophobes” and “racists”, vilified all around by many segments of society.

I liken it in reverse to Whittaker Chambers who “left the winning side (communism) for the losing side (democracy)”


11 posted on 05/16/2018 9:23:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ethom

Hahah like they have tried....

The funny thing is, Democrats gave up trying to win over white Democrats... and that’s why they lost 2016.


12 posted on 05/16/2018 9:23:43 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 1Old Pro

The problem is that these democrats think so highly of themselves and think that “white republicans” are still deplorables. Let them drown in their own swamp.


13 posted on 05/16/2018 9:24:42 AM PDT by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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To: ethom

They say they respect us and in the very next sentence they call us names like ‘dumb’ or ‘racist’. Their idea of respect is quite twisted, but we all know this about liberals. They are a twisted bunch and we can not let them rule over anyone...ever.

JoMa


14 posted on 05/16/2018 9:25:03 AM PDT by joma89
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To: HamiltonJay

exactly, and Hellary wrote off the coal factories which cost her the election


15 posted on 05/16/2018 9:27:05 AM PDT by ethom
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To: The Toll

“There was an attempt?”

In November 2013, the Fraud instructed his worshippers how to talk down to their family members around the dinner table who opposed him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/barack-obamas-recipe-for-heated-holiday-gatherings/281668/


16 posted on 05/16/2018 9:27:28 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: ethom

17 posted on 05/16/2018 9:27:48 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ethom

18 posted on 05/16/2018 9:27:48 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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“The right has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to convincing people that liberals disrespect them, plus a political party whose leaders all understand that that idea is key to their political project and so join in the chorus at every opportunity,”

Wow, 10kw proggie projection, that!

Reality: The left has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to disrespecting the right, plus a political party whose leaders all do the same.

And Joe Sixpack knows it.


19 posted on 05/16/2018 9:27:52 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: RightGeek

badges? BADGES!? we don’t need no stinkin badges.


20 posted on 05/16/2018 9:29:55 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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