The big problem is not Trump. It is "Trumpism"

[Dill]

(05-08-2019, 07:59 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I agree.

But you and I believing something does not mean others did not. We live in a country that is about 40% to 50% conservatives (depending on what poll you read). So you can't just ignore what they think. And you can't be upset when they don't vote the way you want them to, despite you telling them who the correct choice is (people often resent being told what to do even when they aren't being called racists and sexists if they don't follow your instructions).

If Democrats truly want to flip Republican voters, they first need to realize why Hillary was so abhorrent to them and learn from their mistakes.

If they just want Republican voters to shut the hell up and hope that that works in 2020 they're probably going to be very disappointed.

With you on the bolded, C-Dawg.

What bothers me about the Hillary "abhorrence," though, is that so much of it was manufactured. True, she broke the law when she used a private server. That action, more than anything else, hurt her election chances with independents. But then none of the charges levied against her, imagined or real, really mattered to the Trump inclined when Trump's scorecard was far worse.  Fox, Comey and Russia took her out of the election.

Trump voters remind me a lot of those African-Americans who, after the OJ Simpson trial, were glad that he got off even if guilty.  For them it was never about Simpson's guilt; it was about a history of the White man getting away with it.  For committed Trump voters, it was never about competence. It was a thumb in the eye to "the Left" and the "Hollywood elite." And to the undocumented immigrants and Muslim who were "getting away with it."