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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the midwest and I have not experienced anything like what you describe.[/quote]

OP here -- I grew up in the city of Detroit.  I hear a lot of crap here.  A Midwestern Dem's POV is absolutely dismissed -- doubly so if it comes from a non-urbanite.  See the comment posted after yours.[/quote]

I'd also like to point out the Dems in the article we're certainly iganored.[/quote]

What I can see is two points

1.  HRC focused too much on DJT negatives, and not on a positive (economic) vision

2.  Dems didnt pay enough attention to trade

Re 1.  We all know that HRC bet on getting more suburban GOP votes by going after Trump negs, people who might have been alienated by populist rhetoric.   That clearly didn't work, as partisanship limited the swing of those votes to her.  We know that, and won't make that mistake again, in a Prez campaign (obviously in a local campaign it may not be a mistake)  But anyway, if she had gone more populist, she might not have had credibility anyway, so what could she do?

2. HRC did drop support for TPP.  Didn't win her much.  Maybe younger Dems will do better, as they will not have 1990s era support for NAFTA history.   And of course some Dem hopefuls, Warren, Brown, etc are clearly not free traders.  All of that is unfortunate of course, as free trade is actually good policy, but it is what it is.   Also not sure the trade stuff plays as hard outside Michigan.  [/quote]

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