“An unmistakable majority wants a party that will fight harder against the corporations and rich people they see as responsible for keeping them down,” wrote the New Republic’s editorial director.
“An unmistakable majority wants a party that will fight harder against the corporations and rich people they see as responsible for keeping them down,” wrote the New Republic’s editorial director.
It works in a vaccum where economic policy is the same due to uniparty, but again that doesn’t work when put up against popular policies.
A lot of government assistance programs were popular, and they were eroded anyway because their popularity wasn’t sustained through outreach and propaganda. Democrats wouldn’t stand up for government assistance programs because they didn’t really like them either, so the only thing people heard was how bad it was. There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the masses.
Policies aren’t popular on their own. They still have to be made popular and kept popular, by activists and politicians and parties.
They remain popular. They were cut not because they lost popularity, but because nobody were willing to improve them and that then allowed racists to win and cut them. Most openly racist modern politician Trump campaigned on keeping all the social safety net programs because they were popular and are still popular, if someone would have campainged on expanding them they would have won instead.
US has presidential term limits because racists were incapable of winning against popular policies back in the day.