www.vox.com
I've seen this explanation a lot since the election, and I think it's the most accurate. I think there's a lot of minorities who don't want to personally identify as what they see as an aggrieved minority - someone who places their race on the top of their identity hierarchy and who sees their life first and foremost as a struggle against society's disadvantages against their race. I've known some people who think that way of thinking is self-harm. "Why would you define and limit yourself that way?", they say. That, and these minorities either personally find it easy to physically pass as white, or to appear in their mannerisms to completely convey the message that they want to be a part of white western culture and obey its norms. I think for the people I just described, there's a personal revulsion to seeing Democratic politicians break everything down into race. They don't want to be that type of person.
I really don't know what these people want. We bit our tongue and picked the least socialist/left wing Dem nominee possible, but we (leftists) will get blamed for any losses. So are we just supposed to never speak up or run for office?
Most is a bit much, I would say we (but not me) are more conservative than American think. But if I look at my family and extended family across the island, probably 3 out of 20 voted republican. The Biggest reasons are abortion, taxes, military.
Eh, Florida was lost on the backs of "socialism" scares. It happened in 2018 too where Desantis won against Gillum who is a fair bit to the party's left. Also, Florida never truly locked down.
www.carolinacoastonline.com
Why fake news is so hard to combat in Asian American communities
Language diversity within the AAPI community means misinformation is difficult to track.
Meanwhile, in Taipei.
Turns out you need to invest in outreach to control public perception and when you don't invest, someone else will. I had thought Democratic capitalists would understand the market logic here, but apparently not?
Well this is something actual voters, including immigrant and POC voters, have said after the fact. So, there's that. I know a lot of people make bad-faith arguments around this which are basically just tantamount to wanting to shut down activists. But you don't have to engage in that shit to also acknowledge the fact that it *was* a turn off to many voters, including and especially immigrant and POC voters!
Yeah I know...that's why it's such a problem! Many people were voting against Democrats based on a platform that almost none of them had actually endorsed.
I do not really feel this is true. They made a bet and decided that they're better off with Trump than Biden. People make bad bets all the time. Sometimes what you think is a bad bet is a good bet by another metric.
www.resetera.com
It will sound a bit nuts, but according to articles I've read, and my (anecdotal) conversations back in AZ...
I do not really feel this is true. They made a bet and decided that they're better off with Trump than Biden. People make bad bets all the time. Sometimes what you think is a bad bet is a good bet by another metric.
I am reminded of this quote from this thread:
(LA Times) Opinion: We turned over our letters page to Trump readers for a day. Here’s what they wrote
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-14/handing-our-entire-letters-page-over-trump-voters Not sure there's any good in platforming these people, but LA times does it anyway/
I know most people don't think this way but immigrants have needs as well and they invest as well and they like seeing their stocks go up as much as white people, sometimes even more than white people because they believe they're building stability for their offspring. The urge to leave something behind to descendants is a huge part of every immigrant culture. Democrats need to start looking at immigrant communities as people instead of as votes.
Largely, you can throw Trump voters into one of two buckets, or both.
Social/ideological: "I voted Trump because liberals are too feminine, too gay, too socialist, too black, too godless, etc."
Financial: "I voted Trump because he makes the lines go up and lowered my tax burden."
This is something I'm guilty of as well, but I think people who think and talk about politics as much as we do, and engage in politics to the extent we do, still overestimate how much the average low-information voter knows what's going on. Many people are just totally tuned out of politics. Getting a $1200 check from the government with Trump's name on it is some of the most direct, explicit outreach many people have ever seen from a president. Most people have no idea that they got a tax cut from Obama's stimulus package in 2009. Everybody who got a check with Trump's name on it knows who it was from.
Liberal people consume news from a plethora of different outlets. Conservative people go to the same handful of sources. The Republican media apparatus is so effective because their audience is so centralized.
I do not want this but I would be lying if I said I'm not seeing an uptick in sinophobia from the Dems recently, so it's clear to me that that door is open for Dem strategists.
I don't want to, like, fearmonger but it can get many times worse. They have yet to reopen the anti-Asian internment camps. That is when you know shit is fucked, this is just a preview in comparison. Speaking from an American context.
I have thought about which country is the best to bail out to in the event of a Cold War between US and China.
I still remember this.
Joe Biden's latest ad said Trump 'rolled over for the Chinese' on coronavirus, and people are calling it racist and xenophobic
Joe Biden's latest presidential campaign ad accuses President Trump of being soft on China vis-à-vis the pandemic. People are calling it xenophobic.www.businessinsider.com
Sinophobia is pervasive in Europe and North America, it is an issue that does not get a lot of attention for many reasons and part of the issue is we don't talk about the issue. And then the Sinophobia spills over to everyone who looks East Asian, just like how islamophobia hits anyone who's brown and Asiatic looking.
But neither will the Pro-Trump vote (if he dies or doesn't run). It works both ways, and it's unlikely whomever is next on the ticket will inspire the same kind of vitriol as Trump himself.
There was a Gallup poll in September (that I'm glad I hadn't seen at the time) that found something like 56% of voters said they were better off now than four years. That's more than the share of people who said the same in 2012, 2004, 1996, and 1984. That Biden was able to unsent an incumbent president who most voters believed had left them economically better off is kind of a miracle.I do not really feel this is true. They made a bet and decided that they're better off with Trump than Biden. People make bad bets all the time. Sometimes what you think is a bad bet is a good bet by another metric.
I am reminded of this quote from this thread:
(LA Times) Opinion: We turned over our letters page to Trump readers for a day. Here’s what they wrote
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-14/handing-our-entire-letters-page-over-trump-voters Not sure there's any good in platforming these people, but LA times does it anyway/
I know most people don't think this way but immigrants have needs as well and they invest as well and they like seeing their stocks go up as much as white people, sometimes even more than white people because they believe they're building stability for their offspring. The urge to leave something behind to descendants is a huge part of every immigrant culture. Democrats need to start looking at immigrant communities as people instead of as votes.
Largely, you can throw Trump voters into one of two buckets, or both.
Social/ideological: "I voted Trump because liberals are too feminine, too gay, too socialist, too black, too godless, etc."
Financial: "I voted Trump because he makes the lines go up and lowered my tax burden."
Dems made a deliberate tactical decision not to do in-person canvassing. It was the strong decision, in hindsight, especially since we now know that distanced and masked door-knocking would have been just fine in terms of public health (for example, the BLM protests were not superspreader events, and as you noted actually helped drive Dem voter registrations). But you're framing it as a case of "Dems knew they had it in the bag and didn't want to do any work" which I just don't think is true at all. Jen O'Malley Dillon's internal poll numbers were much much closer to the final results than basically any public poll. They always knew it was going to be close and said as much. How many times did the official @JoeBiden handle tweet out "Don't pay attention to the polls"?
