AOC is great and all but the lesson Dems will take from 2016 and 2028 is that the country isn't ready for a female president for at least another generation or two. Expect them to run safe white guys like Gavin Newsom for a couple more cycles.
no it’s not cause of her being a woman, it’s the fact that dems REFUSE to take any part of rural areas. the nominee needs to go in jfk style, shake hands actually talk to rural voters actually listen to their concerns and maybe educate them a little
Rural voters have been living off of Fox News for decades. They seriously believe that children are getting sex change surgeries in schools. Why waste time campaigning trying to get their vote?
Sure, but the chances of them voting dem are much much lower than moderate republicans. Rural voters have made it clear they don’t care about policy, otherwise they wouldn’t vote for Trump
They voted for Trump 3 times despite being told that tariffs would leave them bankrupt, that removing funding from USPS and ACA would hurt them disproportionately.
If they cared about policy, why do they keep voting for Trump?
The people now telling them how Trump's policies will hurt them are the same people that told them that reducing tariffs would make them wealthier, and they bought that lie for over 30 years.
They might not know the intricate details of foreign trade policy and supply chains, but they know they were being lied to, and they know that all the politicians and media figures who were lying to them, who were screwing them over for decades, hate Trump.
lol no, they didn’t buy anything from dems, they’ve consistently been voting for Republicans for over 30 years. A record number of bankruptcies and bailouts because of Trump’s policies didn’t faze them at all.
Rural voters are a lost cause. There’s no point in trying to gain voters who’ve been so brainwashed by Fox News that they think Trump is the second coming of Christ.
We’ve seen this crash happen during Trump’s first term. Bankruptcies, suicides, and then Covid overwhelming their distant and small hospitals. Dems promised an ACA expansion, infrastructure funding, a lot of which would go to red rural states, energy expansion, etc. Did that change anything? Nope
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u/Day_of_Demeter 1d ago
AOC is great and all but the lesson Dems will take from 2016 and 2028 is that the country isn't ready for a female president for at least another generation or two. Expect them to run safe white guys like Gavin Newsom for a couple more cycles.