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    13 hours ago

    Or… now hear me out… we let America get exactly what it voted for. Democrats can’t keep bailing out the republicans.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s a principled take. There are plenty of articles showing it’s Trump’s base that’s receiving a significant portion of injury from his orders and policies. Unless they feel the pain — without democratic intervention to cast blame — these people will never change their minds. They may not in any event, but it has to affect them. It’s either these hard lessons, or we keep spiraling to civil war.

        Learn from history.

        The privileged voters tried to save trump’s base from itself, but what do they know:

        https://www.ft.com/content/6de668c7-64e9-4196-b2c5-9ceca966fe3f

        The results also show poorer and less-educated voters now think Republicans best represent them — a reversal from 12 years ago, when Democrat Barack Obama was president. After a deep-dive into the data, here are five takeaways. Democratic support depends on high-income voters Economic realignment has been under way for some time, but hastened in this election. The Democratic party now appears to be the party of high-income voters, not those with low incomes.