Some aspects of the progressive agenda are popular, while others are downright toxic. The Republican party, which in general is very good at hardball politics, has done an excellent job of getting voters to focus on the toxic aspects. There are a lot of blue-collar Trump voters that would love to see universal health care, for instance…
Some aspects of the progressive agenda are popular, while others are downright toxic. The Republican party, which in general is very good at hardball politics, has done an excellent job of getting voters to focus on the toxic aspects. There are a lot of blue-collar Trump voters that would love to see universal health care, for instance, but won't vote for politicians that will actually pass that legislation if they also think they will take away their guns or get them fired from their jobs for not being woke enough.
Don't kid yourself. They will never vote for the Dems as long as the Dems support abortion, at least the evangelicals won't.
And I better never see support for a woman's right to choose wane in the Democratic party. They will have to tangle with me, and other women and believe us, they don't want to do that.
You provide a good example of a toxic issue with abortion, Scarlette, though of course it's toxic for different reasons than the ones to which John_E alluded. I'm with you on protecting a woman's right to choose her own health care options, but like Arab/Israeli peace, it's difficult to see how resolution will come as long as emotion outweighs reason in discussion about it.
I don't think John_E was kidding himself, though, when he said that there are "a lot of blue-collar Trump voters that would love to see universal health care," since I don't think he was referring so much to the evangelical gun enthusiasts that have responded enthusiastically to Republican bait for decades as much as to blue collar voters who'd voted for Obama and other democrats until 2016 (or had abstained from voting prior to 2016).
It remains unclear how best to woo these Americans away from the lure of fact-deficient emotional appeals, but it's hard to see how doubling down on popularly accepted progressive culture-war slogans is a viable path to getting there.
Some aspects of the progressive agenda are popular, while others are downright toxic. The Republican party, which in general is very good at hardball politics, has done an excellent job of getting voters to focus on the toxic aspects. There are a lot of blue-collar Trump voters that would love to see universal health care, for instance, but won't vote for politicians that will actually pass that legislation if they also think they will take away their guns or get them fired from their jobs for not being woke enough.
Don't kid yourself. They will never vote for the Dems as long as the Dems support abortion, at least the evangelicals won't.
And I better never see support for a woman's right to choose wane in the Democratic party. They will have to tangle with me, and other women and believe us, they don't want to do that.
You provide a good example of a toxic issue with abortion, Scarlette, though of course it's toxic for different reasons than the ones to which John_E alluded. I'm with you on protecting a woman's right to choose her own health care options, but like Arab/Israeli peace, it's difficult to see how resolution will come as long as emotion outweighs reason in discussion about it.
I don't think John_E was kidding himself, though, when he said that there are "a lot of blue-collar Trump voters that would love to see universal health care," since I don't think he was referring so much to the evangelical gun enthusiasts that have responded enthusiastically to Republican bait for decades as much as to blue collar voters who'd voted for Obama and other democrats until 2016 (or had abstained from voting prior to 2016).
It remains unclear how best to woo these Americans away from the lure of fact-deficient emotional appeals, but it's hard to see how doubling down on popularly accepted progressive culture-war slogans is a viable path to getting there.