… Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 by winning over the Tea Party, evangelical, and pro-life blocs, each of them determined to save America from Barack Obama, the first Black president. His enflaming racial resentment gave Trump an unassailable base in his party. But what the general elections reveal is that 40 percent of all Americans is fully part of an anti-establishment, God-first, racially resentful, anti-democratic bloc, who live in a right-wing media cocoon and adore Donald Trump. This bloc of white rural, evangelical, and working-class male voters rushed to the polls in both 2016 and 2020. And critically, they are three of every five Republicans. …
Progressives, Democrats, and “Never Trumpers” will not govern successfully unless they see and understand that working people of all colors are frustrated with stagnant incomes, health care costs, growing inequality, and a politics rigged for the rich. But they also won’t be able to govern successfully unless there’s a strategy to marginalize this bloc of white anti-establishment, God-first, nationalist, racist, and anti-democratic voters determined to save the nation from its demographic destiny.
That starts with fixing the polls so you can have believable intelligence. CONTINUED
Stanley B. Greenberg (Greenberg Research), American Prospect