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 @HeerJeet and
we don't call white working class people "deplorables." We call racist acts and racist statements deplorable, not the masses of voters. Clinton made it clear she had no intention to pay any mind to white working class voters in depressed areas. they answered as one would expect.
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Replying to @bruce9876 @beyerstein and
i have to ask, did anyone actually *read* the deplorables speech? Because she was actually making the populist/Sanders point. If anything, she *undercounted* how many were in the deplorables basket.
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Replying to @DavidOAtkins @bruce9876 and
Again, Clinton herself has admitted the speech was a mistake and contributed to her defeat. You're like one of those trapped Japanese soldiers in the Philippines who was still fighting World War II in the 1970s.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @bruce9876 and
I was Bernie in 2016. I've written a lot about Clinton's failures with the WWC. But that coalition isn't coming back. Obama-Trump voters aren't coming back. Those districts aren't coming back. Offering material benefits or a movement won't do it. Adam Serwer is right.
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Replying to @DavidOAtkins @bruce9876 and
There's a distinction between saying those voters are coming back and saying you shouldn't write them off en masse. Obama's comments on the benefits of campaigning in rural areas is worth attending to.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidOAtkins and
Nobody's writing off the white working class or rural voters. The unpersuadables are the voters who are so strongly committed to white supremacy that they are unmoved by any populist economic policies.
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if you avoid going out to rural areas or working class white areas then I think it's fair to say you are writing them off -- and will be seen as writing them off. Again, this isn't a Sanders critique. Obama said the same thing.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein and
The Wisconsin voters who cast ballots for Obama, Tammy Baldwin and Trump are probably not white supremacists.
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Replying to @kevintripp @HeerJeet and
Obviously they're not white supremacists. What straw man are you arguing with? Everyone in this convo support the 50-state strategy and outreach to rural and working class voters.
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