Blue-collar Democrats to party: It’s still the economy, stupid

I sure hope that male or female, black or white, young and old, may we all prosper and get along better together. I thought only people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh came up with such ideas.

Trump, on the other hand, with his pledge “Make America Great Again” had appeal. Republican also gained three Governorships and now have over twice as many as the Democrats.

Democrats “don’t want to be hypocritical”. We can not normalize Donald Trump and his brand of hate and sexism.

After the disastrous election losses at the state and national level, Betras and other Rust Belt Democrats who have found success in blue-collar districts have some advice for their anxious party: the key to recapturing those voters is not a broad change in policy, but a new commitment to listen and act on their economic concerns, and to show Democrats care. They have never forgotten to be deeply suspicious of longtime poll workers with Democratic sympathies (even if county election boards themselves now have Republican majorities). In 2008, 50 percent of Americans believed Obama earned a mandate from the election. Owens, a cyber security consultant and Marine Corps veteran, said he has been flooded with phone calls from Cobb residents looking to get involved with the Democratic Party. “That just ain’t so-the defeat was too sweeping”, write Jim Kessler and Jon Cowan of the center-left think tank Third Way. It’s a bit more subtle now, but divisive just the same.

Other potential candidates have also emerged, including former chairman Howard Dean, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, South Carolina Democratic chair Jaime Harrison and outgoing Labor Secretary Tom Perez, as well as other issues, notably whether the party needs a full-time chairman.

Refusing to work with Trump altogether, Schumer said, would be “to close the door … when middle-class jobs and incomes are at stake” and “be unfair to our constituencies”. “It obviously creates all sorts of doubts”. In fact, attentive outsiders have a far clearer understanding than its operatives of the Democratic Party’s fault lines.

November was a tough election cycle for Senate Republicans, who were defending 24 of the 34 seats up for grabs, many in states that Obama won twice. “I think it spoke to our strengths; I think that there’s room to grow; I think that, especially right now where people are really angry and feel sad, using that emotion and channeling it into something productive is what we have to do, and I do feel like the leadership is starting to recognize that and have starting putting people in place who want to move the needle”. But that happened before Sessions joined the Senate. Schumer’s team also includes Sens.

In a change year when Americans were in the mood for radical populism, Sanders offered all the stuff voters liked about Trump – his anti-free trade message, economic populism, opposition to stupid foreign wars, the fiery, outspoken energy of a loud New Yorker – minus his manic loopiness and offensive comments about women and minorities.

Not only that, but his daughter, who’s supposed to be in charge of his blind trust while he’s President, not allowed to basically have any interaction, sat in with Trump’s first meeting with officials from Japan, a conflict of interest. Congressional Republicans may be able to enact their own versions of domestic initiatives, defense spending and immigration. “I know the pain out there”.

If history repeats itself, Republican legislators will be eager to pass legislation that for the past six years has been rebuffed by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Ted Rall is author of “Trump: A Graphic Biography”, an examination of the life of the Republican president-elect in comics form.

“My motto is advance anywhere we can and defend everything we must”, Sen. The 2016 Clinton campaign, with Hillary’s yard signs pointing to the right, was stuck with the unenviable task of trying to rally millions of voters to an unpopular, excessively conservative contender on the grounds that she was less very bad than her Republican opponent.

“You can get some good things done, but it’s not all roses and sunshine”, said Brent Siegrist, the House majority leader then. I was asked by a pleasant interviewer at Global Television if it were not the case that current American conditions resembled Germany in the 1930s. That’s assuming Republicans don’t decide to extend the filibuster ban to Supreme Court appointments. And they could do a tremendous amount to set the party on the path out of the wilderness in the Age of Donald Trump – with potentially significant national ramifications that could stretch well into the next decade, for instance by having a substantial influence over the redistricting of House seats, which could help determine control of the Lower Chamber in the 2020s.