Friday, November 11, 2016

Trump's win and the challenges it poses to the Democrats

Trump's win and the challenges it poses to the Democrats: Yesterday, I discussed the various ways the election of Donald Trump as president makes life challenging for the Republicans. On the Democratic side, the path ahead is currently obscured by a mix of s...

MGB: This election was a demographic war.  The cynical play would have been to put Corey Booker on the ticket.  It would have also had the Democrats win Pennsylvania and maybe Florida and Michigan.  Thomas Frank was right in Listen Liberal and Obama should have been more muscular on bringing back unions - although Republican obstruction is partly to blame - with the GOP reaping the rewards of it.  Vocational training should have been championed - but that is also a union thing.  The Democrats need to not be Republican Light because doing so has then lose on the demographics.

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