Anti-Trump political strategy in red state areas must include many independent candidates.
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Donald Trump’s “there are only two sexes” executive order lays the foundation for a broad conservative assault on Gays, Feminists and all Americans who reject traditional views of sex and morality. Modern Neuroscience explains why the order is wrong.
Democratic Political Strategy is Developed by College Educated Political Analysts Sitting in Front of Computers on College Campuses or Think Tank Offices. That’s Why the Strategies Don’t Work.
Saying that Dems need to “show up” in solidly GOP districts is a slogan, not a strategy. What Dems actually need to do is seriously evaluate their main strategic alternatives.
There is a sector of working class voters who can be persuaded to vote for Democrats in 2024 – but only if candidates understand how to win their support.
Calling the Democratic Party a “coalition” is a venerable cliché of Democratic political life. But in recent years, it has basically become an empty one. The party’s working-class support has so markedly declined that Democrats largely have stopped describing the party as a “big tent coalition.” However, the notion that the party is nonetheless a coalition remains common.
Democratic strategists: The widely discussed new book White Rural Rage employs a deeply misleading sensationalism to gain media attention. You should read The Rural Voter by Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea instead. It is a far more thoughtful and profoundly researched analysis of rural Americans.
Democrats: GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini’s book, Party of the People is an extremely perceptive and important analysis of American working class voters both white and nonwhite that Democrats should carefully read and understand.
The recently published book, Rust Belt Union Blues, by Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol represents a profoundly important contribution to the debate over Democratic strategy.


