UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Public radio stations targeted for cuts by Trump offer lifelines to listeners during disasters
This week, Trump signed an executive order aimed at slashing public subsidies to NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.
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He also pissed off the Chinese by calling them peasants which is why they are playing hardball with the tariffs
Oh, God. Are y'all about to do this Dems are going to win Texas again posts?
That's what bothered me the most about people on TV because they keep saying the black vote had a major rise yet every poll I saw says it was the same as the last election.
And,Coon Smith can sit there and fool many people but he doesn't fool me at all. He always tries to play sides but never challenges any Republicans yet have the audacity to say he's an Independent.
I agree with what you're saying.
What I'm saying is that if you are a party that only gets politically informed people in this country to vote for it, you will forever be a losing party to sometimes sneaks out a win.
Republicans have found a way to get low information voters to come out for them i.e social media.
Also, (colin warning) if you go back to 2012, Obama had just won re-election and people were saying Republican may become a permanent minority party because of the changing demographics of the country.
Republicans themselves did a post mortem that said they could not be a white people only party any more. The racists in the party said "fuck that. Where can we find some more white people votes?"
They found them. Rural voters. They went to rural voters and found out they hated immigration, trade deals, Black people, and elitists.
Mitt Romney and previous Republicans ran on cutting taxes and regulations. To target those rural voters, Trump's people gave him these stump messages: Build the wall, end the trade deals, white people are the real victims, Democrats are elitist that hate the common man. Republicans were for most of those things, but it was never their main topics, and hell, they were the party of trade deals.
The reason why Hillary's loss in 2016 was such a surprise is that so many white rural voters that had never voted before came out and voted for Trump. In 2024, Trump won 90(!) percent of rural counties.
Dems have their own group of untapped voters to go to. Urban Black and brown voters in low income areas that are nonvoters. If Dems could find or issues that could turn them into reliable Dem voters, Dems could sweep every election. Dems could keep their same messaging, just add something for those folks as well.
90 million voters did not vote in 2024. If Dems had convince 10% of those voters to vote, they would have swept the election. Even if we cant convince them, I would at least like to try.
Last point, four years ago, Beto sent a warning to dems about the wall of blue latino districts in south Texas. He told dems the had to get down there because every time he went to those districts they said he was the first dem to visit, but Republicans were there often. Almost all of those counties are all red now.
Dems need to get out into these communities more than at election time and build connections.
Also, didn't Greenland start to really stand on biz after Vance and his wife visited?
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