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WingsOfGood posted...

The dem strategy atm is to donate to far right candidates and prop them up with the idea they will win by default because they don't want to run popular socialist programs like Bernie ran on

While that strategy is shitty, it has nothing to do with this topic. The whole point is that nobody believes the rust belt revolution narrative anymore. It's clear that "economic distress" is not the primary motivator of Trump's core base. However, it was something that the left ate up as it was pushed, particularly hard by republicans.

But that was a particularly clever move, because it ties into leftist ideals, making it easy to believe. It doesn't even need to be clever though! People on the left bought into the idea that CNN was fake news simply because Trump repeated it a bunch of times. This has been the strategy re: crime. Blast every violent event that happens in a city across the airwaves until people have the impression that liberal cities are Purge like hellscapes.

Anyway, just important to be aware of patterns of stories that come out, even if you are on the left and think you are less at risk of buying into right-wing bullshit.