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Steve Stoft's avatar

Would someone at Persuasion do some fact checking. The biggest working class loss of the Democrats occurred between 1964 and 1972. It dropped from 67% for the Dems to 30%. The Hard Hat riot was in 1970. The reasons were very similar to today. The extreme left did it and I helped. Nov 1972 was the day I woke up to what we had done.

And please stop repeating the nonsense about how the working class left due to Civil Rights. LBJ arm-twisted and rammed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He signed it four months before the 1964 election and that struggle was headline news for over a year before that. Everyone took that into account and that's when we got 67% of the working class and LBJ won the largest landslide in the Democrats' 200 year history! Someone at Persuasion needs to look this up.

Then what happened? The Black Power movement trashed King, derailed LBJ's proposal for actual economic equality; the Black Panthers got violent; Hillary Clinton took notes at the NJ trial where the Panthers were seen as political prisoners until the Court played the tape they made themselves of torturing their own 19 year old innocent Panther before they executed him. Angela Davis bought the four guns for the Marin Courthouse kidnapping. Her shotgun blew out the brains of the judge. The Black Liberation Army started assassinated police, and all the big cities had riots that Black Power and Whit radical approved of.

Then in 1972 for the only time ever a majority of union families voted against the Dems.

Also, of course, all of this was made possible by the support of White radicals, including University presidents. Plus the whole radical left became super anti-American, like the pro-Hamas nuts today.

Black power eventually evolved into CRT and here we are. The problem has always come from the far-left "revolutionaries," who are NOT progressives. Dems get sucked in, as do the R's by their extremists.

https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/help-me-understand-why-trump-won/comment/76518178

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Robert Heisler's avatar

To paraphrase an old pundit: "it's the issues stupid." What this election has shown is that it's a mistake to talk about Party allegiances and coalitions. In our two party system allegiances are entirely fluid. People vote the issues and the Trump victory is the inevitable result of failed policies of the Democrats: in the economy, at the border, in the arena of cultural sensitivities and in international affairs. Find the right policies and the effective communicators of that policy and guess what: you win elections.

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