re: #173 gwangung

Propane Jane has been hammering this point for the last year or so. There’s an existing coalition that elected Obama, and going after this coalition (which, coincidentally, looks like the America of the 2030s) is not a bad strategy.

Both Sanders and Trump focussed on the white working class. While this is a large segment, it’s not longer a winning strategy to lean on them alone. You HAVE to build a coalition of voters now; you might be able to cobble together a coalition that includes white working class, but you cannot rely solely on them to win national elections.

Sanders and Trump went after the white working class, and Trump did better because he captured their concerns better than Sanders - not economic uncertainty, but rather the sense that the one thing that kept them ahead, being white, was losing its power.