1. This is a core reality of 2016 that is still insufficiently appreciated.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/988186589263204352 …
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3. Clinton's pitch to college educated white Republicans failed because of geography (not enough in key states), Comey letter (which made her look as bad as Trump). It also, I think, discouraged many working class POC who then stayed home.
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4. There's no way to know whether an alternative strategy (say more economic populism to win back WWC & also energize working class POC) would've worked. What we know is that Clinton strategy didn't work.
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5. 2016 was extremely close election to a fluky degree: 70,000 votes in 3 states. But that means many different factors plausibly tipped the scale.
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6. Going forward, best to see that this was an epic SNAFU which many parties (Putin, GOP, media, Comey, third parties, Clinton strategy) to blame. Would need more self-reflection from most of these parties.
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7. Now, you're asking, "How does Jack Kirby fit into all this." Well, if you re-read Captain Victory #4.....
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This was the “deplorables” comment in a nutshell
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This is one of the takeaways the Democrats should remember- that self-identified Republicans may hem and haw, but they eventually return to the GOP at the ballot box. If Trump couldn't shake that, nothing will.
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If so then it was daft to give up on WWC Obama voters as too racist to vote for Hillary. They voted for Obama! There's an argument they voted for a nonwhite POTUS only because Romney was dogwhistling rather than overt. You may believe that but I find it implausible.
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2016 was about cross-party vote suppression, and the contest was asymmetric. GOP voters turned out for their corrupt candidate in a bigger proportion than Dem voters did for their corrupt candidate (but arguably less so).
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Hard to square a) Trump's racism reorganizing the electorate by b) stealing WWC *Obama* voters. Yes, racist ppl can vote for a black candidate, the same way they can have a "black friend", but it's hard to believe racism wld be a *main political driver* for many Obama voters. /1
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I think it's much more likely that Trump's racism/xenophobia mobilized the GOP base - winning him the primary, legitimizing him via a major party nomination & bending party elites to his will. He then picked off *just* enough WWC voters in the industrial swing states to win. /2
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