Democratic Strategists Struggle To Appeal To White Male Voters

Editor’s Note: This will be a long day because I want to spell out all kinds of things about our country which have completely escaped “Democratic strategists.” I’m going to give it a shot in the hope it gets back to someone like Bernie or Yang.

I read this article, and I just laughed:

“UPPER ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — When he moved to Pennsylvania about five years ago, it was a coin toss which party Brian Heitman would register with.

No longer.

Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Heitman, who is 42 and white, has become a reliable Democrat. Last week, he voted for the Democratic candidate in a special state Senate election in Pittsburgh’s affluent southern suburbs.

“A decade ago I probably wouldn’t have even noticed this election was happening,” Heitman said, “but I’m making a point in voting in every one I can nowadays.”

The Democrats’ 2020 presidential primary may feature a historically diverse field of women and minorities, but in some ways it is testing how the party appeals to white men such as Heitman. Many Democratic politicians went into the last presidential campaign cycle taking little account of those voters, and banked on a coalition of women and minorities to carry them to victory. Trump’s victory proved that thinking wrong. Many in the party are determined now not to make the mistake again.

That’s left Democrats wondering whether the nominee should be someone who can cut deep into Trump’s base, picking off large numbers of working-class whites, whether it’s enough to win over affluent, college-educated, suburban men and whether party is moving to far left to win them both. …”

I’ve recently had the dawning realization that our political establishment might not really know much about anything. We’ve kind of assumed that the experts and people on television are intelligent and well educated and have better ideas than we do. Maybe that’s not the case.

Here are some of the reasons why I have begun to doubt the mainstream punditry:

1.) In 2016, we elected Blompf as president, and to the very end no one in Conservatism, Inc., the mainstream media or the Democratic establishment understood why we had chosen a celebrity television host and obvious moron to be the next president of the United States.

2.) For the last two years, the mainstream media pounded away at the Russia conspiracy hoax, which we rolled our eyes at and found ridiculous. Seriously, the electorate was swayed to vote against Hillary Clinton because of RT, which no one in America watches, and a miniscule number of Facebook ads which hardly anyone saw? Progressives seriously believed this and had absolute faith in the notion that Robert Mueller was going to expose the truth about Russian collusion.

3.) It has occurred to me that the mainstream media also got the “alt-right” or “Far Right” completely wrong. The vast majority of us are populists and nationalists like Pat Buchanan or Tucker Carlson. We’re somewhere in the middle of the American electorate, not on the fringes. This is why we clash so often with the “True Conservatives” who are to our Right and SJW progressives who are to our Left. It is why we are so utterly disillusioned with mainstream politics.

4.) The mainstream media has assumed that the “Far Right” is to the Right of the conservatives and lolbertarians somewhere out there in the electoral solar system past Pluto. But actually, we are quite affable in real life and moderate on social and economic issues. It’s just that there is no place for us in mainstream American politics anymore because the system is so intensely polarized. This is why people in this corner of our political universe become so radicalized. It is due to the fact that the SPLC and ADL have essentially demonized populism.

5.) Just a few generations ago, this wasn’t the case. Here in Alabama, I could have happily voted for someone like George Wallace. He loved his Southern heritage. He was also a strong supporter of building infrastructure and investing in education. He built community colleges all over Alabama. There is no place for people like me in either party though because of political correctness. In fact, there is no one who is simply pro-White, pro-South, pro-Christian who isn’t now labeled an “extremist.” How on earth did we get to this point in our national politics? One wonders.

6.) I also read articles like this one. No one is even mentioning Yang in the conversation about how “Democratic strategists” can reach disaffected White males who voted for Trump? Once again, it makes me wonder if our political establishment is just retarded or something.