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Democrats desperately seek working-class voters — but only offer shams

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The last Democratic presidential candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton.

He needed every one of them in his 1992 and 1996 victories — and still failed to win 50% of the popular vote.

Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election.

Yet this demographic still makes up 40% of the electorate and registers and votes at much higher rates than non-white groups.

Apparently, during the Biden-era influx of 10 million illegal aliens, Democrats really believed their own slogans about an “emerging Democratic majority” and how “demography is destiny.”

They therefore confidently abandoned most efforts to recruit white working-class voters.

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And today, working-class voters are being further alienated by the top-down takeover of the Democratic Party by hard-core leftists, socialists and even the occasional communist.

Their agendas are boutique and have little appeal outside blue-city and blue-state echo chambers.

In the proverbial real world, voters have little patience with redefining what a woman is, biological men showering with teen girls, or males masquerading as female........

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