Advice to Democrats from Jamelle Bouie (white working class males may want to curtail big money in

politics).

The Donald’s Secret Weapon

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/donald_trump_s_anti_lobbying_rhetoric_is_actually_kind_of_genius.html

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In an analysis for the Democratic Strategist and the Washington Monthly published earlier this year, pollster Stan Greenberg drew a connection between the high-dollar fundraising of modern political campaigns and the deep government distrust from working-class whites, working-class white men in particular: “While white working-class women are more likely to see campaign contributors and party leaders as having the most influence, white working-class men again cite special interest groups and lobbyists: amazingly, 60 percent say these groups hold the cards in Washington.”


For Greenberg, it’s this—more than anything else in politics—that fuels anti-government cynicism. These voters agree with progressive economic principles, he notes, but “everything they have seen says that government is gridlocked and is bought and paid for by big donors and special interests, and politicians rig the system for the most irresponsible companies.” They want government to work in their favor, but they don’t trust that it will. Instead, they assume that government will take their taxes and spend it on “individuals and corporations vastly more wealthy and powerful than themselves.”


His solution, as a Democratic pollster, is an explicit reform agenda: for Democrats to loudly commit to policies that curtail lobbying, take money out of politics, and shrink influence from special interests. If pulled off, Democrats could win working-class whites—or at least a larger portion of them—and secure their advantage in national elections.




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