American Prospect: Forget about reaching out to the right--for now.

[ginnyinWI]

Time to focus on the mid-terms, and give the trumpies some time to realize that he's not going to keep his promises. Then after the mid-terms the Dems may be able to peel some of them off.

Reporters who traveled to Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday for the first rally of President Trump's re-election campaign—and let's be honest, he deserved a break from all that presidenting he's had to do for four whole weeks—found something shocking. A bunch of people who waited on line to see Donald Trump, it turns out, like Donald Trump and think he's doing a great job.

This remarkable development was delivered in the form of breaking news, but we've also seen one story after another of late in which a journalist travels to some Trump stronghold to touch base with the people who voted for the president and reports back that they haven't abandoned him yet. Alongside those are think pieces telling Democrats that if they want to climb out of their pit of electoral despair, they need to start being nicer to people who voted for Trump; in this glorious article in Sunday's New York Times, for example, we hear from Trump voters complaining about how mean liberals are to them, including one young man lamenting how difficult things have gotten for him on Tinder. Apparently, single women are women are weirdly reluctant to hook up with men who supported a candidate who bragged about his ability to sexually assault women with impunity. Go figure.

Nevertheless, "reaching out" to Trump voters seems on its face like sound advice. After all, Democrats lost, and if they had won over some of those voters, they would have won. So isn't that the simplest path to a different outcome next time around?

The answer is no. To understand why, we have to get a few things straight about both Trump voters themselves and the different kind of electorates the parties face in different election years.

http://prospect.org/article/why-democrats-need-forget-about-reaching-out

[Iggo]

1. I can't reach that far anyway. (n/t)

[blueseas]

5. +100

[First Speaker]

2. This is assuming that we're all still here in 2018...

...that Dolt 45 hasn't blundered into a nuclear war, or declared martial law, or any of the other myriad disasters that might make "elections" a quaint concept...

[Wounded Bear]

3. Sound advice....

Trump voters are, by and large, a lost cause for progressive candidates. The important thing to do is to turn the protesters into voters in 2018. GOTV is not just about the last two weeks of the campaign. It's about getting people involved. There are majorly good things going on behind the protests. Progressives and liberals need to organize, in red districts, places where they have felt lonely and ignored for too long.

[rzemanfl]

6. It wouldn't hurt to go after protest voters who didn't learn from 2000 either. n/t

[meow2u3]

4. Tramp voters are still under the spell of the Orange Menace

They'll just have to find out for themselves that he's not the so-called savior he passes himself off as. Nothing we can tell them will make them see the light--they're too enthralled by this psychopathic danger to the world to see what he's really up to.

[KittyWampus]

7. Will read the full piece later but it seems pretty reasonable. Time and place for everything.

[Mendocino]

8. Very true.

The undecided voter who went Trump can't really be touched now, in for a penny in for a pound. Between now and the midterms will be their wake up period. Some will come back to the left after enduring SCROTUS for two years. I think the Senate will and a fair+ chance for the House to be regained.