In 1996, if you’d said that in 20 years, HRC would be the Democratic presidential nominee, you could also have likely predicted that working class whites (both men and women) would bail on the Democratic party. That doesn’t mean HRC was so fatally flawed candidate.
https://twitter.com/SER1897/status/1461424663960043521
Bill Clinton was a great politician, sure, but it’s not like HRC was drastically more to the left than he was. Arguably, the ways that she was more to the left involved her centering of racial justice and feminism.
But the Carvilles, et al, are wrong when they imply that HRC ignoring racial justice/feminist issues (abortion rights) would’ve ensured she performed like Bill Clinton in 1996.
The Clinton-era Dems are desperate for the days when Bill carried Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Why can’t the exact same 1992/1996 Clinton platform produce similar results? And mainstream Dems don’t want to acknowledge race/gender as the reason why not.
Was Biden’s platform dramatically different from Clinton’s 1996 platform? Was Dole really a worse candidate than Trump (well, kinda). Why couldn’t Biden deliver the way BC did?
What’s scary for Dems is that the ancestral white Dems who switched to the GOP over the past 25 years are LOST to them. They aren’t coming back. But the ancestral white GOPers who flipped bc of Trump are less reliable.
That was arguably the lesson of Virginia.
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