re: #164 HappyWarrior

For what it’s worth, I wish Sanders would also stop acting like he’s the only one who understand white working class voters and that our losing them is some kind of awful tragedy. Those voters started running away from us in the Nixon years and it was due to Nixon and later Reagan exploiting their bigotries. Not every WWC voter is a bigot of course but Sanders ignores that bigotry definitely has played a role in why those voters have left the Democratic fold.

I suggest he has not ignored their bigotry.

Isn’t his way of saying stop catering to minorities and personal politics actually playing to the white working class’ bigotries?

They want it to be all about them And he caters to it.

It might also be why he doesn’t want to be a Democrat…as you’ve said he plays it like he is the only one that understands the white working class. He hangs that on the Democrats as a historic problem. A problem many whites also see as they are threatened by minorities getting too much of their cake.