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2016 Postmortem

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Reply to DanTex (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2016, 11:06 AM

Dec 2016

Good post.

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I'm not wasting my time trying to apologize for or "understand" racist people better. [View all] DanTex Dec 2016 OP

Considering the rise of far right nationalist parties in many other western countries mythology Dec 2016 #1

DU rec... SidDithers Dec 2016 #2

+1, if it was a bunch of racist Hispanic people I don't think the question would even come up !!! uponit7771 Dec 2016 #3

Good point. tenorly Dec 2016 #10

And this talk of the dem party catering to trump voters must be going beyond dem forums like this lunasun Dec 2016 #4

Good post, and it should also be expected that a certain R B Garr Dec 2016 #5

Yes. We do understand racists. treestar Dec 2016 #6

The GOP would cease to be a viable institution if not for bigotry. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #7

Yup, it's extra nauseating when Dems pretend the racism and bigotry pnwmom Dec 2016 #8

Especially when all of the evidence disputes the economy/anti-establishment narrative. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #9

No, social issues dominated her campaign & the majority of people who voted for Trump aren't racist. RBInMaine Dec 2016 #13

The actual evidence says different, and it's been posted many times already. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #15

No, it didn't. Her speeches were analyzed and her number one topic was jobs, pnwmom Dec 2016 #20

The majority who voted for Trump aren't racist atreides1 Dec 2016 #26

Trump voters voted for a racist True_Blue Dec 2016 #11

OK, Well I guess everyone who voted for Obama but went to Trump are just all racists. Sheesh. RBInMaine Dec 2016 #12

That's a tiny number of people, and I don't know if they're racist or not. DanTex Dec 2016 #14

Read this: Garrett78 Dec 2016 #16

What do you think White voters would do True_Blue Dec 2016 #17

Some of them are misogynists and others are anti-immigrant, pnwmom Dec 2016 #21

Catering to racists is just smarmy but nonsensical code for refusal to address working TheKentuckian Dec 2016 #18

"Favoring broad poverty"? Are you kidding? You seriously think the Dems favor broad poverty? DanTex Dec 2016 #19

Hillary's #1 topic in her speeches was jobs, and her #2 was the economy. pnwmom Dec 2016 #22

So okay... fuck the Trump voters. Now who is left? Warren DeMontague Dec 2016 #23

Seriously... many were Obama voters in 2008 & 2012... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #24

yeah, I'm not what you would call a math expert Warren DeMontague Dec 2016 #25

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