Missourian
Diamond Member
I wrote this for someone else...a progressive...on the difficulties for Progressives in overthrowing the Democrat Establishment.
It's worse than you know...
The Republicans have beat you to populism. Trump is no fascist or racist...that's propaganda in line with Obama is a Muslim, and you're smarter than that.
We Trump primary voters saw in 2012 there was no middle, that running a moderate like Romney was a losing proposition. THAT more than anything else is what fueled the Anyone But Romney movement. That is why we nominated Trump. We ran two moderates against a true believer and got our asses handed to us. Now you feel our pain.
Next, you guys have a hard row to hoe instituting change in your party. We took a big gamble nominating Trump...but we won that fight...and there will be more, but we got the granddaddy of them all out of the way up front...now our guy leads the party. When we have to fight our own, we have PROOF we were right and they were wrong, and we have the power of the President of the United States at our backs...a President that is a Fighter with a capital F. You guys are going to have to fight a million little battles against an entrenched establishment. And you're not going to win them all, you're going to have to compromise, and those compromises will add up. Plus, the infighting will destabilize the party.
Finally, you've got your original problem...the one that is structural. The blue collar middle class didn't leave you...you left them. We have a saying where I'm from...you dance with who brought ya. The unions and the working class supported you for years, and you sold them up the river. So worried about citizenship for people who broke the law and which bathroom a transgender could use that you forgot about them all together...and now, they are a lot closer to us than they are to you. You came out for a visit. I freeze in the winter and boil in the summer right there next to them...and they are pissed off in the worst possible way, and the murmuring have been growing among them since 1999 until today it is a roar. If Trump keeps his word and works for them...they are lost to you until the worm turns again and the Republican establishment forgets the lesson again about dancing with who brung ya. If you're lucky, those arrogant asses will blow it at the first opportunity.
I wish you the best, cuz were all in this together...and I'd much rather have a Bernie than a Clinton. As you have likely surmised, Bush and Clinton are two sides of the same coin. Stay honest and passionate, your Friend...MOe.
The Republicans have beat you to populism. Trump is no fascist or racist...that's propaganda in line with Obama is a Muslim, and you're smarter than that.
We Trump primary voters saw in 2012 there was no middle, that running a moderate like Romney was a losing proposition. THAT more than anything else is what fueled the Anyone But Romney movement. That is why we nominated Trump. We ran two moderates against a true believer and got our asses handed to us. Now you feel our pain.
Next, you guys have a hard row to hoe instituting change in your party. We took a big gamble nominating Trump...but we won that fight...and there will be more, but we got the granddaddy of them all out of the way up front...now our guy leads the party. When we have to fight our own, we have PROOF we were right and they were wrong, and we have the power of the President of the United States at our backs...a President that is a Fighter with a capital F. You guys are going to have to fight a million little battles against an entrenched establishment. And you're not going to win them all, you're going to have to compromise, and those compromises will add up. Plus, the infighting will destabilize the party.
Finally, you've got your original problem...the one that is structural. The blue collar middle class didn't leave you...you left them. We have a saying where I'm from...you dance with who brought ya. The unions and the working class supported you for years, and you sold them up the river. So worried about citizenship for people who broke the law and which bathroom a transgender could use that you forgot about them all together...and now, they are a lot closer to us than they are to you. You came out for a visit. I freeze in the winter and boil in the summer right there next to them...and they are pissed off in the worst possible way, and the murmuring have been growing among them since 1999 until today it is a roar. If Trump keeps his word and works for them...they are lost to you until the worm turns again and the Republican establishment forgets the lesson again about dancing with who brung ya. If you're lucky, those arrogant asses will blow it at the first opportunity.
I wish you the best, cuz were all in this together...and I'd much rather have a Bernie than a Clinton. As you have likely surmised, Bush and Clinton are two sides of the same coin. Stay honest and passionate, your Friend...MOe.
