Thread by @DawsonSField

There is one main problem with this idea, too many of the Democrat base has been taught that not loving our country is the morally superior position. They stopped loving America long before Trump came along. Trump is just exposing this hypocrisy with his America First rhetoric.

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1330312215061278730

When Reagan tied together patriotism & America's success, many Democratic Party voters were not yet anti-American. Some were there, but patriotic rhetoric from Reagan in the 80s called to many Democrat voters & won them over for his 1984 landslide.

Since that time, Dems have focused very hard on convincing their voters that a successful America is not the solution to their problems; but that America's success is a threat to them. That they are not part of America & will miss out on the fruits of American success.

The Dems rhetoric to achieve this has been varied but mostly based on Identity Politics. Convincing voters that they will not share in America's success because they are "Other" and America's success only goes to the right kind of Americans.

Identity Politics is usually a game supported by a vast majority group & it is the only group that benefits from Identity Politics. Minority groups always end up further outside the mainstream when Identity Politics is played.
So why would Dems take this approach?

Because Democrat leaders want to ensure that their constituencies don't benefit from America's success...
They want a self fulfilling prophecy that America's success does not help all of these groups that remain separate from the free market economy.

Dems want to anchor their voters' boats so they don't rise with the tide. So they can use it to blame everyone whose boat is rising with the tide.
Making these voters more & more dependent upon policies that prevent a rising economy & prevent America's success.

The Dems only hope is to convince a majority of the population that they are "Other" a segment of people outside the population of the nation. It is obviously not possible to have a majority of people in a nation who are a small disenfranchised & oppressed minority.

So the Dems have relied upon an alternate strategy, to maximize the number of "Other" groups though Balkanization of the nation. To divide people into as many possible groups who don't identify as American first. Then create a coalition of all these groups.

It is the motive behind their framing of "privilege".

If you have privilege, you don't deserve what you have.
If you don't have privilege, you deserve more than you have.

Driving jealousy & division to create more people who identify as "Other".

The Dems have maximized this allowing their activists to jettison their main privilege, being Americans in a successful country, to claim oppression as their identity.
Whether it is based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or other factor of the moment.

These groups then compete with each other for influence within the Democratic party by fighting to score Intersectional points. Where each group claims their 'oppression' is worse than everyone else's & gives their opinion greater moral authority.

We can't defeat the Democrats by appealing to patriotism anymore. They have convinced too many people that patriotism is a vice and that patriots are inherently evil for placing America ahead of some other progressive value of the moment.

We can only defeat this by helping all of these Democratic constituencies see that they are part of America.
That America's success is their success.
That America's failure is their failure.

That the Dems encouraged their failure, to ensure their loyalty to their party.