The notion that there are a huge electorate of untapped and unactivated socialists just waiting for that special candidate out there is another infuriating thing. Like, there isn't a Trotskyite in Allentown Pennsylvania just waiting for that leftist candidate.
I hope I helped disabuse a lefty friend of mine by pointing out that my trailer park's signage was 5 to 1 in favor of Trump over Harris and asking what these people understood that I, a Harris voter, did not
You have to make it stark and put them in the untenable position of defending Trump voters. It's interesting to see who is willing to do it and who won't
I think a lot of them have conservative family members and don’t want to admit that they voted for Trump bc they love his bigotry. So they invent some grievance politics that proposes that their family members are desperate enough to tear it all down, rather than putting bigotry over class interest.
yeah like the idea that a blue collar white guy in rural PA or WI is just waiting for a conversation with a guy from the internet to realize he's really a communist shouldn't have survived contact with 2020--not with the dem primary results nor with the general election results
It was amazing to see so many Bernie supporters convince themselves that Warren, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg dastardly took out poor old Bernie and ignoring that when it came down to just two men, voters clearly preferred Biden
at least the narodniki had the excuse that they didn't have the example of to learn from
there is apparently not a polite Trump-hating Republican just waiting for the most compromising Dem to come along either
Bernie crushed Clinton in the 2016 primary with working class & rural white male voters. Biden crushed Bernie in 2020 with working class and rural white male voters. There's a common theme there but it's not supporting the liquidation of the Kulaks.