I may be wrong, Robert, but I'm pretty sure I saw a note in the news yesterday stating that Trump's performance in areas with a large concentration of Native Americans improved significantly this time. If accurate, seems so very strange, but a similar pattern happened among Black and Hispanic men, and young men. So troubling and hard to fathom.
That's right. The NY Times reported that Trump's share increased by 10 percentage points in Native American–majority counties. Sadly, he increased his share of every other demographic group as well. And I share your wonder at just how this could happen, when the dangers he poses are so screamingly obvious. We have a lot of work to do.
The more I read about it, the more I am unpersuaded by the idea that a whole bunch of people -- Native Americans, Black men, Latinos, etc. -- suddenly got more racist or suddenly stupid. Sexism, however, was clearly part of the problem. But a big part has got to be that Democrats are pushing messages that aren't popular, and solutions that don't seem to be solving the problems that a lot of people are encountering. Does this mean I think Trump is a good idea? Of course not. He's a con man and a demagogue, out for himself. But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Democrats need to rethink a lot of their strategies, policies and language if they want to build a coalition that gets us out of this mess. For Pete's sake! If more Native Americans are voting MAGA, lefties are doing something wrong in their approach...
I may be wrong, Robert, but I'm pretty sure I saw a note in the news yesterday stating that Trump's performance in areas with a large concentration of Native Americans improved significantly this time. If accurate, seems so very strange, but a similar pattern happened among Black and Hispanic men, and young men. So troubling and hard to fathom.
That's right. The NY Times reported that Trump's share increased by 10 percentage points in Native American–majority counties. Sadly, he increased his share of every other demographic group as well. And I share your wonder at just how this could happen, when the dangers he poses are so screamingly obvious. We have a lot of work to do.
The more I read about it, the more I am unpersuaded by the idea that a whole bunch of people -- Native Americans, Black men, Latinos, etc. -- suddenly got more racist or suddenly stupid. Sexism, however, was clearly part of the problem. But a big part has got to be that Democrats are pushing messages that aren't popular, and solutions that don't seem to be solving the problems that a lot of people are encountering. Does this mean I think Trump is a good idea? Of course not. He's a con man and a demagogue, out for himself. But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Democrats need to rethink a lot of their strategies, policies and language if they want to build a coalition that gets us out of this mess. For Pete's sake! If more Native Americans are voting MAGA, lefties are doing something wrong in their approach...