Former Democrat Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear explains his party's position

[gracchus]

he wasted it trying to appeal to Drumpf voters, because the only way mainstream Democrats can imagine electoral victory is by winning over white men suffering from “economic anxiety” and other euphemisms.

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@gracchus

Progressive Democrats and FDR-style liberals who truly want to break from the party establishment and make the “politically impossible” possible need to start from the proposition that the Know-Nothing 27% of the electorate are write-offs, whose opinions should not be considered or taken into account. That leaves about 70% of Americans to approach with policies emerging from a balance of reality-based populism and informed expert opinion.