Every politician you mentioned by name made an effort to reach out to the working class and be inclusive of them and tell them that their interests were a priority, that’s why they won. My point is that all of these unpopular candidates talked past the working class and ignored the reality faced by most people (work doesn’t pay enough and everything is too expensive) and essentially ran on an “I’m not the Republican” platform. They misidentified the core needs of their voters and failed to be electable.
The especially frustrating part of this is that we just did this same thing in 2016 and the democratic neoliberal committee appears to have learned absolutely nothing. We’re right back in the same pattern as 2016 where everyone’s looking to point fingers and blame some group for our current misfortune. Pro tip: stop doing that and start really trying to understand what went wrong and how the party platform can include more people and get them excited about a good candidate. It’s a popularity contest for crying out loud, run on popular issues.
Every politician you mentioned by name made an effort to reach out to the working class and be inclusive of them and tell them that their interests were a priority, that’s why they won. My point is that all of these unpopular candidates talked past the working class and ignored the reality faced by most people (work doesn’t pay enough and everything is too expensive) and essentially ran on an “I’m not the Republican” platform. They misidentified the core needs of their voters and failed to be electable.
The especially frustrating part of this is that we just did this same thing in 2016 and the democratic neoliberal committee appears to have learned absolutely nothing. We’re right back in the same pattern as 2016 where everyone’s looking to point fingers and blame some group for our current misfortune. Pro tip: stop doing that and start really trying to understand what went wrong and how the party platform can include more people and get them excited about a good candidate. It’s a popularity contest for crying out loud, run on popular issues.