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Originally Posted by rubecube
I agree, but the Democrats completely losing blue-collar/union support across the country should be a huge red flag.
It's pretty telling when guys like Yang, Sanders Ro Khanna, etc., are at least somewhat popular in these places but the party itself is basically a pariah.
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Not surprising to anyone, but Democrats (and actually, probably not even to them)
Offshoring manufacturing happened over decades, across both administrations, but the Trump Republicans won by giving the states cast by the wayside a voice
They probably thought they could get by with mainly support of the major dem states with a better moral slate than the shockingly personally amoral incumbent, but underestimated the resonance of that basic message
Bernie actually may well have killed it, being a non-Trump populist that might resonate better with the disenfranchised