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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Newsflash: Every political party uses people as pawns. Trump just won using rust belt voters as pawns, claiming he (and the GOP) care about workers despite a titanic amount of evidence that suggests they don't. The game is the game.
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I definitely agree with you that this is how the game has been played for a long time. But I do think there's an important difference between creating a wedge out of a social issue ("you're either opposed to killing unborn children or for women's rights") and drawing lines along racial divides. Tribalistic instincts are bad enough without doing that.
Obviously this is not solely (or arguably mostly, if you factor in historical positions over the past 60 years) the Democrats' fault; they merely took what the Republicans were offering them in terms of voting blocs. Trump did likewise.