In 2016, Sen. Chuck Schumer said "For every blue collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin." Yeah, that was a winning strategy.
Point is if you mobilize more people but use the sam…
In 2016, Sen. Chuck Schumer said "For every blue collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin." Yeah, that was a winning strategy.
Point is if you mobilize more people but use the same mistaken strategy, it won't work. Nor can you win by talking only among yourselves. Upper middle class professionals, the type whom the Ds most obviously represent, should learn to talk with us blue collar workers, the majority, and not just talk down to us. Coalition building is difficult and it takes time to earn trust. Or for the D party, to earn it back. That's how to win.
In Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It)// he has robust statistics showing that since 1992, as a county's mass layoff rate goes up, its Democratic vote has gone down. Notice that's local info. Here's the kicker--at the same time, these same voters have grown more liberal on social issues. The easy dismissal of us as ignorant bigots undeserving of economic relief is both deeply unfair and in reality untrue.
Don't believe me? Read the book; years of solid research and accurate stats. Or go to the Labor Institute's website or Les Leopold's blog.
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In 2016, Sen. Chuck Schumer said "For every blue collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin." Yeah, that was a winning strategy.
Point is if you mobilize more people but use the same mistaken strategy, it won't work. Nor can you win by talking only among yourselves. Upper middle class professionals, the type whom the Ds most obviously represent, should learn to talk with us blue collar workers, the majority, and not just talk down to us. Coalition building is difficult and it takes time to earn trust. Or for the D party, to earn it back. That's how to win.
In Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It)// he has robust statistics showing that since 1992, as a county's mass layoff rate goes up, its Democratic vote has gone down. Notice that's local info. Here's the kicker--at the same time, these same voters have grown more liberal on social issues. The easy dismissal of us as ignorant bigots undeserving of economic relief is both deeply unfair and in reality untrue.
Don't believe me? Read the book; years of solid research and accurate stats. Or go to the Labor Institute's website or Les Leopold's blog.