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In reply to the discussion: Joe From Scranton Didn't Win Back Working Class [View all]Azathoth
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You can't build a big enough tent to hold educated and non-educated, fundamentalist and secular, critical race theorists and poor blue-collar white folk. It just doesn't work.
Policies don't matter. Even messaging only goes so far if it's contrived.
The reason Trump connected with his base is because he's authentic. He's too mentally ill not to be authentic. What you see is what you get. And if there's one constant of every conversation I've had with less-educated folk, regardless of skin color or political persuasion, it's that they're convinced government is needlessly complicated and full of phony crooks and the whole thing is rotten and needs to be swept away and people who understand common sense {insert their pet political idea here} need to take over. An authentic wrecking ball like Trump clicks with that mindset.