Here lies the problem for the illiberal Liberal Democrats. They are some of the most prejudice people on the planet.
White working class person who drinks beer and watches NASCAR is viewed as ‘scum’ by these ‘elites’. Violent black drug dealer should be hero-worshipped by the Liberals.
It’s not only the US who have the problem with illiberal Liberals. In the UK the Labour Party was crushed in the election last year largely because they sneered at the white working classes.
And that's basically how Trump won, which liberals still can't comprehend. I say Obama did the most to gin-up the kind of sentiment that made a Trump victory possible, with his sneering, elitist attitude and rhetoric for eight years. But that's all it took to turn traditionally blue/purple union states into Trump states.
A buddy of mine was a senior-level operative with the RNC based in D.C., and he was dispatched to primarily the midwest states to help run the Trump rallies. He, like most of the RNC operatives, passionately hated (still does hate him, actually) Trump but kept his head down and did his job. He was telling me that the rallies were utterly shocking, in that Trump was turning out tens of thousands of the very types of individuals that never vote Republican, if they even vote at all: white, middle-aged, non-college-educated blue-collar workers. Working-class white folks who were sick and tired of being told they were stupid fucking rednecks by Obama and other D.C. elites because they worked a 9-5, didn't have advanced degrees, went to church, owned a gun, etc. As he put it, anyone with a background in political science, numbers or national campaigning who actually came out and witnessed a midwest Trump rally would never believe the polls and popular assumptions again. And then you had Hillary and her "basket of deplorables" basically accusing anyone who even thought about supporting Trump as idiotic, racist white supremacists and that's all it took to swing states that the GOP always loses like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And if you listen to the garbage they're spoon-feeding Joe Biden on the teleprompter, the party clearly hasn't learned its lesson. Trump this, systemic racism that, oil sucks, coal sucks, shut this down, shut that down, in-between his increasing napping fits. Biden has always done well with working-class voters in the midwest but that's going to change if they keep letting idiot millenial activists write the scripts and he keeps falling asleep or forgetting where he is (or what office he's running for).
But really, I'm not going to get riled up over the presidential election this year. Did that with Obama and it wasn't worth the stress. I've got much more at stake in the local municipal races, which are non-partisan, which means your democrat friends and republican friends can all work on the same operations and campaigns and not end up brawling with each other. All I really care about is getting that fucking vaccine and getting back to as much of a "normal" life as possible.
