I really hope your party agrees with you. All evidence is that they do. But, as some one living in the Rust Belt, I can tell you that the working class white voters that Trump flipped are not committed to the GOP at all.
It's that ever-changing-principles paradigm as to why going after those voters is a lost cause; they're not loyal. They're reactionaries. We don't need them. We need to increase voter turnout; the higher the turnout, the less likely Conservatives are to win.
Voters shouldn't "be loyal" to a party, the party should be loyal to THEM.
If the party doesn't represent their interests, it is right the voters should vote for someone else.
"Reactionary" is a meaningless buzzword. They wanted better jobs and wages. That's reasonable, and your anger of that is not.
A democratic candidate that could credibly claim to be focused on making the pie bigger for them, would have an easy time flipping them back, especially if the GOP runs a Jeb.BUT, any policy that this hypothetical dem would advance to help working class whites, would offend or undermine either an important dem core voter or principle.
**** working class white people. They are largely a myth to begin with, and their share of the overall pie is so low that even if you're able to sway half of them, it's not enough to win. Make the pie larger. Get more people to vote.[/QUOTE]
That was the conventional wisdom before Trump, which is why election after election, both parties ignored them.
Trump was right, everyone else was wrong.
Oh, you're talking about "pie" as number of voters. And here I assumed you wanted a bigger and wealthier economy. How silly of me.
Better trade policy to help the working class white voters? That will upset too many superrich donors that profit enormously off of trade deals. Better immigration polices to shift power from employer to employee? That's racist.
Conservatives don't support any of those things. Conservatives have no trade policy other than contrarianism, and their immigration policy is based in race-baiting xenophobia. When the xenophobes die off, which they will, who will replace them and vote alongside Conservatives? It's not a long-term strategy.[/QUOTE]
Mainstream conservatives do not, correct. That's why they lost the primaries to Trump, who does.
YOur race baiting is noted as proof of what I said.
THE Democratic Party and "liberalism" today is inherently hostile to working class whites.
You CAN'T make a real play for them based on issues. You hate them and the America they represent, and so do your base(s).
You could try lying even more.
But you've lied a lot and the voters are suspicious finally.