And decides to ask Rust Belt Democrats why they swung for Trump<\/a>. \u00a0I know, that\u2019s radical. \u00a0Why ask people what they think and why they think it? \u00a0Anyway, Van Jones asks, and learns something that is pretty common sense.<\/p>\nTurns out, they didn\u2019t vote for Trump out of some latent desire to embrace America\u2019s racist, imperialist, genocidal past by loving racism and joining the Alt-Right.<\/p>\n
They voted for Trump because, well, things weren\u2019t going well for them. \u00a0Some voted for Obama, but felt promises weren\u2019t delivered, and things are no better than 2008, if not worse. \u00a0They voted for change in 2008, they voted for change in 2016.<\/p>\n
Democrats continue to join the media in screaming hysterics, conspiracy theories, rigged elections, and refusing to ignore the bleeding obvious. \u00a0Don\u2019t believe your own press. \u00a0Just because the press was working overtime to convince people that everything is awesome doesn\u2019t mean it is. \u00a0And those who know it isn\u2019t because of their own plights aren\u2019t going to buy propaganda that tells them to deny their realities.<\/p>\n
There are many reasons, of course. \u00a0But Hillary\u2019s decision to exemplify the ultimate example of establishment politics, promising to do nothing but keep on as before, would only work where peace and prosperity were closer to a reality, rather than a baseless headline that was easily debunked by driving down the street and looking at Main Street America.<\/p>\n
If Democrats can\u2019t even admit that much, then there\u2019s likely little hope they\u2019ll be willing to look at deeper, more troubling reasons that even Van Jones will fear to tackle.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And decides to ask Rust Belt Democrats why they swung for Trump. \u00a0I know, that\u2019s radical. \u00a0Why ask people what they think and why they think it? \u00a0Anyway, Van Jones asks, and learns something that is pretty common sense. Turns out, they didn\u2019t vote for Trump out of some latent desire to embrace America\u2019s racist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-insights","category-politics","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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