Conner Lamb won the Pittsburgh suburbs because he's a moderate Democrat. Clinton won those suburbs the same way. Magical thinking doesn't win those suburbs.
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Replying to @BSpaniel91 @kevintripp and
they aren't "safe" areas. They were longtime GOP areas that became Dem pickups. Western PA is old FDR coalition-land, that used to vote Dem but flipped to GOP because of racism. That realignment isn't changing whether we nominate sanders or bloomberg or warren.
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Replying to @DavidOAtkins @BSpaniel91 and
It's not good to right off a huge chunk of the population as irredeemable & unresponsive to persuasion (or, to borrow a word, deplorable).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidOAtkins and
And yet, a huge swathe of the population is deplorable.
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Replying to @beyerstein @DavidOAtkins and
I think framing racism (or any form of bigotry) as a problem of "deplorables" is an analytical error and a political mistake. It recasts a system of privilege into being a problem of bad persons with bad ideas.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidOAtkins and
There's a certain percentage of the electorate that's not persuadable without unacceptable compromises on race. Given that we've got limited time and resources for persuasion, it's better to acknowledge that fact upfront and act accordingly.
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Replying to @beyerstein @DavidOAtkins and
It's neither good politics nor good anti-racism to write off wide swaths of the population. One of the differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is that he didn't do that.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidOAtkins and
Obama wisely didn't say the word "deplorable" at a rally. But you can't tell me the Obama campaigns viewed all voters as persuadable.
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Of course not all voters are persuadable. But treating a wide swath of voters as if they are beyond the pale and not worth addressing isn't good politics and it's corrosive to democracy. Obama's remarks about the necessity of campaigning in rural areas is instructive.
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