My in-law family is like this. They’re all moderate Republicans who are Catholic and couldn’t stomach for voting for either Trump or Hillary. If Joe Biden is the nominee I’m confident they’d all vote for him. This is why I’m so torn between trying to swing some moderate white people vs. writing them off entirely. 

Maybe, but in the near future none of the issues you cited will affect these women, nor will it be shit they care about. Most of them are Gen X or Boomer white women (including my coworker) who are beyond needing reproductive healthcare (at least insofar as birth control or abortions). They don’t care about social…

How can you watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and vote for Trump.   People can be so obtuse.  

“He didn’t say anything about color [in his tweets],” Gina O’Briant said. She later added, “He dated a black woman for two years. Two of his wives are immigrants. He’s not a xenophobic racist.”

The supporters he has left are immune to facts for one simple reason; they’re getting exactly what they want.

I’ve had to quit speaking to people as well. It sucks that people I once loved and respected turned out to be racist, misogynist, proto-fascists, but that’s what his remaining supporters are. Full stop.

I…

Yeah, and like, there are white women who definitely did not vote for Donald Trump, but they also already don’t need any convincing to vote for his opponent and are also the kind of white people who don’t get angry/go all “not all white people” when we talk about how so many white people voted for Trump. I realize my…

Repurpose your efforts to focus instead on getting jilted Bernie voters, uninspired blacks, and lazy youth to go vote. Blaming republicans for being republicans is unlikely to get you anywhere.

This.

The fact that they are TERRIFIED that they no longer matter is the entire point of Donald-fucking-Trump. So yes, we need to stop arguing and cajoling and attempting to reason with these people and find ways to win in spite of them.

Eh, I’m nor sure that these white women matter as much as they/we think they do. As Michael Harriot wrote earlier this month,

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.- Daniel Kahneman

He ran on a platform of racism. It wasn’t a bug, it was a feature. “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing rapists”, “Build the wall”, “Muslim ban”. All of that was out in the open, publicly stated, as part of his policy platform.  Trump voters knew all of this going in.  The majority of them are thrilled that he’s…

And, honestly, the group who are the worst, who should feel the worst, who demand to be treated worse than all others, should be the Bernie brothers who refused to vote for Hillary because they felt cheated. They’re stupidity, their inanity, their stupid beliefs that trump had no chance so they could vote for no one,…

Oh, a cool girl. Fantastic.

The best way to think of it is that these are moderate republicans running under the “D” label who are willing to caucus with the democrats to build up our numbers.  Which is fine by me.  They are welcome; because we need all the help we can get in a regressive institution like the senate.

Seriously. I actually think the way she worded that statement is fairly crafty. She’s not saying “I love Trump”, she’s talking about what people (erroneously) thought they were voting for (lower drug prices, less corruption) which *is* what Turmp was promising. And McConnell *is* opposed to what Turmp promised. It’s a …

Sometimes the writers here come off as living in a bubble. 

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart. 

As if she could survive without spewing her vile nonsense in front of a camera. The only way she’s quitting is if she already has another on camera gig lined up. I dread the day she gets pregnant. She’s going to be one of those women who act like they’re the only woman to have ever had a child. Then she’ll be the sole…

Also, fairly certain Whoopi didn’t spend most of her life ‘traipsing around the Hamptons.’