Looks like farmers are going to feel the economic effects of a Trump presidency soon, if they aren’t already.
Whether that will be enough to shock farmers into voting Democratic is another issue.
I can’t speak for any particular black woman in inner-city Philadelphia, but yeah, I suspect if the economy is good, President Trump will easily win re-election, and bring along some of those “light-blue Dems”.
They can be non-racist technocrats who don’t think all taxation is theft. Democrats already vote for Republicans in Massachusetts and Maryland. I voted for Ayanna Pressley and Charlie Baker (though I am not an official Democrat).
They can’t do this because it conflicts with their core belief that government can’t possibly work better. You should see the denial when it’s pointed out to them that people in other countries pay much less for heath care - they insist there’s a hidden tax for everyone but America that isn’t included in the price that secretly makes it more expensive than what’s shown in the international comparison charts.
For farmer to vote Democratic, they would probably need to be convinced that Democrats as a party care enough about the farmers in the first place. Democrats are seen visiting the border and threatening to hold up legislation over migrant detention, but they hear hardly a peep about the plight of farmers. In fact some moderate Democrats are on record agreeing with Trump on anti-Chinese tariffs. Republicans are still the party of God and guns. If they’re pissed off at Trump, my guess is that they’ll just stay home, or they’ll vote predictably R down ballot but less predictably at the top.
I imagine the farmers will get truckloads of money shoveled their way so only their pride and cognitive dissonance will be wounded and not their pocketbook.
Do you think that atoms are nuclei surrounded by negatively-charged particles, and mostly empty space?
Do you know that large raindrops are not teardrop shaped?
Be very careful how you answer those questions. Wouldn’t want to be incorrect here, hein?
**What do Republicans have to do to win Democratic votes? **
When your president says stupid shit like Americans who were born here should go home to where they came from because their skin is not white…
Then perhaps the Republican leaders of the party should call him out, and say that was not a presidential thing to do. Tell him that did not help to unite the country. You don’t even have to call him a fucking racist.
What you should NOT do to win Democratic votes is to call these elected, American born women "communists, and say that they hate America for disagreeing with Trump.
That would be A REALLY GOOD FUCKING START.
This need not be a hypothetical. There are Republican governors in three deep blue states (MA, MD, VT). All three of them won reelection easily during the “blue wave” cycle of 2018.
They won over Democratic voters in massive numbers by rejecting Trumpism and embracing a “fiscal conservative, social liberal” approach that appeals to white suburban voters. They are also fairly low key guys who have spent a significant portion of their lives in public service.
It’s not rocket science.
Then Republicans should probably have a hissy fit over - you know - the actual racism than using the adjective “racist” to describe the words* in Congress.
Words do matter. There are places where vulgarity** is not proper. But I’m generally far less concerned when someone says the word “shit” in one of those places than when someone drops their pants and takes an actual dump on the table in those places. The current GOP leadership seems confused about that in a way that is distancing to some people who might be in alignment with them w.r.t., say, economic theory.
*not the person, the words.
** “racist” is not a swear word. Just need to be clear about that.
There are a lot of Black and Hispanic voters who are socially conservative, mainly because of their religion. I’ve felt for some time that if either party could find a way to build a tent in which they welcome diversity and campaign on moderate social conservatism and moderate fiscal conservatism, that party would be unbeatable.
The problem with that theory is that there are enough racist voters and hardcore evangelical radicals out that they’re attractive to the Republican party. They’re attractive because they’re repulsive to moderates and liberals, and they’re fully aware of that fact. They’re repulsive, but substantial enough in numbers that they can be a valuable prize to the party that’s willing to offer them a home.
The problem with moderate voters is you don’t even know if they’re committed to voting; they might have other plans on voting day, or the weather might discourage them from voting. Not the case with bigots and fundamentalists: they know that voting is power, and they never miss an opportunity to use it.