Comments by "" (@kellygreenii) on ""Uneducated White Voters" Interviewed. It's Really Bad" video.

  1. What is it? Economic stress. What Obama and Trump both had in common was an economic populist message. Both appealed to white working-class voters because they are struggling economically and feel abandoned by the system. Democrats abandoned them to push for social changes that the white working class was often opposed to. While cozying up to the Finance and Tech sectors for campaign money While the GOP will flatter these same people culturally (and in racial term...ahem Trump) while just outright exploiting them economically Trump WON the Rust Belt because he was the only one who showed up and PRETENDED to care about what is happening here with de-industrialization. Clinton was too busy with her victory lap in Sun Belt Red States to even bother to show up. Unless Democrats get their act together and come up with a platform that includes these voters, they risk losing those vital Rust Belt swing states again in 2020. Trump is underwater here....but not by much.
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  2. Everyone remembers the FIRST half of Clinton's "basket of deplorables" quote....but no one remembers the REST of what she said about Trump voters. Ironically she understood the problem...but then did NOTHING to win over that other group of Trump voters.
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