Big ignored story from elex (which will continue to be ignored in trumpstorm chaos): red state voters voted for education + healthcare in ways that stand against now-hollow party platform and decades of fiscal conservative TPs. This is important /1 cnn.com/2018/11/07/pol…
It's important because it shows that the expectations of Americans on the provision of these services have changed. There is an opening here.
The strange irony of Trump is he is a "populist" who had failed to promise classic populist stuff like this /2
cnbc.com/2018/11/07/uta…
The strange irony of Trump is he is a "populist" who had failed to promise classic populist stuff like this /2
cnbc.com/2018/11/07/uta…
I'm not sure his people have the vision to do this because they are locked in by ethics violations and financial interests.
But politically -- there is a way to talk to conservative voters here that no one is capturing. /3
But politically -- there is a way to talk to conservative voters here that no one is capturing. /3
Most headlines these days ignore the core truth of most voters: people just want to live well and not worry so much. And if you talk to them that way, at a local level, there is always a way to find common ground. /4
