[youdontknowtho]

Are you saying that as the Democrats became distanced from working-class issues, the republicans got closer to working-class issues?

Could you explain that in terms of the policy that they adopted or is it a response to Dems adopting minority rights issues?

What I mean to say is that if they are both bad in the same way on working class issues, what is it about minority rights that would make you vote R?

Genuinely trying to understand here...not trolling.

[username90]

R said that they will bring back working class jobs and give them something to be proud of. R also said that they will limit low skill immigration which will help reduce competition for working class jobs. R said that they will reduce taxes for working class people (and they even increased taxes for better paid workers, so it is not like they just reduced it overall).

All of these are typical leftist talking points, Democrats just left those votes on the table and R just swooped in and took them.

[AnimalMuppet]

> Are you saying that as the Democrats became distanced from working-class issues, the republicans got closer to working-class issues?

I don't know that the Republican actually got closer to working-class issues. In the last election, though, they at least got to the point of talking about such issues, in the same election that the Democrats didn't bother to do so.

So if I were a working-class minority person, whose major pain point was economics, in the last election I still might vote Republican, because they at least were talking about the thing I cared most about, even if the Democrats were talking about my secondary issue.