Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m a former republican from a red state with MAGA parents. Here is what they need to do to win:
-Give up on increasing taxes for a cycle. Don’t touch trump’s tax code bc they think it helps them (it doesn’t)
-don’t focus on trans issues / pronouns. Most people in these red states have never met a trans person and they just don’t care
-focus on military, securing our nation
-focus on a strong immigration plan
-course correct everything T is doing. How will you fix federal funding? How will you protect our elderly? How will you help our college age kids? This is your largest base of voters.
-Get a Tim Walz type in. We need someone who has lived on a teachers salary. Limousine Liberals were the reason I hated democrats for so long. I was struggling financially and then someone making $1mil a year was trying to raise my taxes and just didn’t get my struggle.
-childcare: if you can make raising kids more affordable, you might be able to win some red state voters. You have to shape this in a way that doesn’t hurt kid free people.
Np here. I appreciate your input, and we need more people like you to share that perspective. And then we need to listen to these perspectives and share them with our representatives.
The bolded part - I hear this so often - about liberal elitists who can’t relate to them. And then they vote for…Trump? An actual silver spoon baby who lives in a golden tower/golden country club? I don’t think he was once seen interacting with a middle/lower class person prior to bursting into politics. I can’t think of a less relatable person. Why isn’t he accused of being an elitist nearly as much as democrats who came from a more modest background and worked hard to get where they are?
You did not say whether you ever voted for him. Either way, perhaps you can share some perspective on this?