That's the problem the democraps have. Their "base" is fragmented into a myraid of sub-groups, each with their own agenda. Normally, a coalition would form but for the dems, each sub-group "outvictims" the other sub-groups leading to a war within the party over who should be pandered to making a coalition impossible.
No matter who they pick to pander to, it's going to piss off the rest of them.
Good for us, sucks to be them.
Exactly! And to be frank, the Rs also are a coalition of people with identifiable special interests.
The task of keeping a party's core working together is to keep everyone assured that when the party's candidates win,
everyone will benefit in some significant way. Conversely, being a coalition of groups with specific interests/concerns can be a vulnerability.
For example, many R leaders fell for the Ds', Libs', Progs', and MSM's denigration of the "Religious Right". By 1988, Evangelical (and other) Christians were already being told to shut up, sit in the back of the bus, and vote as they were told. Come 1992, this tactic (among other issues) bore fruit for the Ds, and the Ds', et al, next iteration took the form of
The Tolerance Game, which the Rs, again, tried to play, rather than overturn the game table. IMO, the nadir came with McCain-Feingold, which John McCain carefully aimed at Christians participating in political processes.
In 2008 multiple pot holes drove John McCain's campaign into the ditch - e.g. war-weariness and people voting their melanin - but one was the fruit of McCain-Feingold. A minority of Christian voters voted, "
Oh, Hell no!". As we just saw, a small minority here and a small minority there can add up to defeat.
Well, we just saw that. Enough people with various interests whose votes the Ds
assumed were securely theirs saw the Ds had attacked their interests or brushed aside their interests, and in response voted Trump, or otherwise didn't vote for Hillary. Hillary & the Ds failed to show all their coalition members that they would all benefit from voting Hillary. Worse for the Ds, some of the interests within their coalition had come into conflict, to some degree due to D pols: Enviros vs. unions and "the working class"; the
race-baiting industry vs. police & fire unions, middle/working class people, and business people whose lives and livelihood depend on communities being safe.
bn and her ilk are so melanin-blindered that they think they can drive and dominate a political party's agenda and have the party be successful. They're going to find that it's not just people who voted for Trump who have a tolerance limit for race-baiters' verbal clubbings, that even Progs' white guilt has limits. And I think they're transitioning into seeing the consequences of exceeding those limits.
