Jobs, jobs, and more jobs. “Hillary wants to close your coal mine! I’m going to help you keep your jobs! Detroit is making cars in Mexico and closing American factories due to NAFTA. I’m going to bring those jobs back to our country and make America great again!”
That was the pep talk that hooked the working class. It’s all my (retired autoworker) father-in-law talked about. “Trump is going to bring jobs back!” My father-in-law wasn’t concerned about national security or religious matters, he just wants jobs back in the US.
It ain’t over until the electors vote? Could electors be recruited to vote against their state’s mandate, based on Clinton’s win in the popular vote? Or just bribed?
I’m not sure that undermining democracy is the right call here.
I fantasize that we’ll find out that Clinton won by 10% and all the voting machines were actually hacked but. . . the people chose. Everybody’s gotta live with it
Neolibral centrist "new democrats’ have sunk the party, they let a moldy pumpkin pie fully and finally take the mantle of populist and working class from them by pretending middle American jobs didn’t matter.
I don’t actually think that’s true. It’s not like Clinton didn’t have a jobs plan - she just wasn’t willing to make the kind of divorced-from-reality promises that Trump was.
There’s a limit to the ability to bring the “the good old days” via trade isolationism
Agree, but the whole electoral college system, in which the person who got less votes will be named president, already undermines democracy. In a vacuum, I could get behind subverting it, but the violent backlash that would ensue would not be worth actually doing it.
If you want to campaign against the Electoral College - that would be a productive use of energy. Direct election of the president + ranked choice voting would go a long way towards fixing some of the current electoral problems. People could cast votes for the candidates they really want without being accused of helping the worst candidates get elected. Votes in deeply blue or deeply red states would still matter.
I was at an election party last night, and had brought champagne for victory and bourbon for defeat, assuming I would get wasted in either scenario. But when the results came in I found myself too despondent to partake of either, and went home dead sober. I’m currently aspiring to be miserable enough to drink my problems away.
