re: #286 Interesting Times

Another thing going on that I truly don’t get is this binary, either/or, “no, you can’t talk populism that appeals to WWC voters because it automatically means dismissing the concerns of women/LGBT/minorities”

I’m sorry, but what the actual frack? Populism doesn’t have to equal “durr hurr, messicans are talking ur jobs!” Yes, there are “irredeemable” racists among the WWC, but if racism is all there is to it, how do you explain the WWC/rust-belt voters who went for Obama in 2008 and 2012, but switched to Trump this time around? Hell, even people with racist tendencies can set them aside for a strong-enough populist appeal from a non-white candidate. Case in point?

So, um…yeah. People are complex, crazy, irrational beings who defy all logical explanation sometimes. And I’ll repeat some tweets originally posted by Ziggy Tardis:

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Again, the moral of the story is NOT “throw women/minorities/LGBT under the bus.” It’s, “come up with a populist message for everyone, and link it to other issues normally associated with so-called identity politics.”

Can you tell me exactly where that wasn’t what Hillary was doing?

Or is it the fact that Hillary was unpopular that automatically cancels out that really was her platform?

I have a feeling you cannot say she didn’t do exactly that? Something else was the telling factor. So, it has got to be the ‘baggage” bullshit that only counted against her where the Trump baggage, as smelly it was and yooooger, did not.

And even Debs addition about her not running a crack campaign makes me wonder how the Trump campaign did better? Was it Tweets and free news coverage? How could Hillary have done better against that?

Trump’s campaign really was “An Asshole on Display and This Asshole says He is Going to Make America Great Again.” And he won. Tell me, how does even the Obama campaign beat that?