They need to figure out either how to attract such voters or at least get them turned off the Drumpf.
That's where the conversation really needs to go in order to analyze this phenomenon.
There are the racists, bigots, nationalists, etc. who have always existed and will continue to exist until well after all of us here are dead.
There are the easily influenced--those who tend to be of below average intelligence and are poorly educated. For these people, whatever it is their parents and/or family believe, that's what they believe, and that will never change.
There are the opportunistic wealthy who see a massive tax cut as all to the good for them. Who doesn't want over a million dollars just for punching a hole in ballot one time?
But then there are the rest, most of whom are blue collar, underemployed, and white. Blue collar doesn't mean stupid. And when they say their jobs have been shipped overseas, they're not exaggerating. And to tell them to just go do something else is insensitive and stupid as the things we accuse Trump supporters of being. When they look back on a time in America that was better than it is now, they're not thinking about how great it was to be white. They're thinking about companies like Oldsmobile and Pontiac that used to exist, and all the parts manufacturers that existed for companies like that. That's where their parents and families worked.
You went to grade school, junior high, high school, and then you caught on at a plant somewhere and began working your way up.
And the same thing has happened to the construction industry in huge swaths of the U.S. If you didn't want to go to college, then working construction was a viable alternative. There's so much talk from the left about "the jobs Americans don't want to do." Well, construction jobs have vanished and those were jobs Americans used to do.
If those realities aren't acknowledged, then the next Donald Trump is only four years away if he doesn't win this election.
Republicans need to acknowledge their complicity in this too. Reforms that have been proposed have been shut down simply because they came from Democrats and no other reason. But now that they've utterly lost control of their party, maybe they'll wake the fuck up. Paul Ryan is a gutless piece of shit, but if Hillary wins he needs to take his microscopic ball sack in hand and go to the rest of the GOP and have a serious talk about getting government to function again. But the left needs to have the same conversation too.
