[blind-democracy] FW: An uncomfortable conversation the media is avoiding
- From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 21:41:08 -0500
Apparently, the folks at The Intercept were having the same discussion. Ironic!
It's too late for me to start watching it tonight, but I will watch tomorrow or
the next day.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:16 PM
To: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: An uncomfortable conversation the media is avoiding
Why did so many working-class people reject Democrats?
For months, Democrats — and much of the media — seemed confident that President
Donald Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic would guarantee a landslide victory
for Joe Biden and a majority in both houses of Congress.
So we’re now faced with an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: Why did so
many working-class people reject Democrats? Has the Democratic establishment
become so badly disconnected from the economic reality of most Americans that
they failed to realize the consequences of the pandemic?
As my colleagues and I discussed in a live video conversation this afternoon
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, Biden failed to offer a compelling reason for many of those who have been
hardest hit by the pandemic to come out and vote for him.
Democratic leaders believed Trump’s rhetoric around race to be so toxic that
voters of color could never move his way. But it seems that’s exactly what
happened — with Democratic gains coming predominantly from suburban and
college-educated white voters whose livelihoods have been least impacted by the
pandemic.
The exception was in Arizona
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, where Biden’s wider-than-expected margin of victory was due less to his
campaign’s own outreach efforts than to years of grassroots, door-to-door
organizing — born in the successful fight to defeat Sheriff Joe Arpaio —
through which Latino activists have transformed politics in the state.
If Biden struggles to govern with a divided Congress and a Republican-stacked
Supreme Court, we can expect the struggle between insurgents and incumbents in
the Democratic Party to take center stage.
If you’ve been following The Intercept, you know that that story has long been
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