Hollywood, you deserve this. This is your damn fault!

[binary solo]

Chris Hu said:

numberwang said:
Trump flipped 5 states in the greater rust belt for Republicans - and without those the Dems can never win again. Dems now have very little to offer for the working class and that is the cause of their demise. Identity politics may win LA and NYC but not the rust belt.

 

Republicans have even less to offer to the working class. Trumps economic plan has failure written all over it and will lead to more jobs lost in the rust belt. At best those five states will become swing states. Unless some economic miracle happens those states will not stay solid Republican.

 

Assuming Trump actually won't do anything for those states which is a reasonably safe assumption, and Clinton lost those 3 states which gave Trump the W by a collective 107K, which is a very small margin, it is very presumptuous of anyone to think that those states have become reliably red. But it did send Democrats a message about not taking those states for granted, so the question is whether they heard it and how they will respond.