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So what's your conclusion about what it is? I'll go first, I think that is mostly because of a disastrous 2010 off-year election, its ensuing redistricting per

So what's your conclusion about what it is? I'll go first, I think that is mostly because of a disastrous 2010 off-year election, its ensuing redistricting period, and, well, I enjoyed this piece: http://fusion.net/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216 http://fusion.net/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blo...

Turing_Machine 10y ago
"So what's your conclusion about what it is?" Utter failure of the current Democratic Party to connect with those voters who made up its base for a century or more. I don't think there's any other way to spin it. Trump won because he carried several industrial and mining states that were traditionally Democratic strongholds. Your link is just another attempt to blame it on "stupid racists". Did it ever occur to the Dem leadership that calling people stupid racists doesn't make them more likely to vote for you? Those states all voted for Obama twice. While I suppose it's possible that everyone in those states turned into a stupid racist over the last four years, that's not where I'd place my bet.