Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

I have no clue what the answer to this is.

But this happened before in the early 1980s, creating the Reagan Democrats. These cycles repeat themselves, the way I have seen it. The Democratic party panders to various groups, makes promises. ... then doesn't deliver, people suffer from the reality of the people who take power. ... and at a certain point those people have enough and vote the bums out. So those people who have always been Democrats (and get taken for granted) fight back with their vote.

I'd imagine the party will now start to try pandering better and offering bigger and better bullshit to take those people back. A lot will depend on how well the economy does for those people under a "President Trump" (so weird typing those words!).

The Democratic party since the 1990s -- with the triangulation that was successful at stealing the traditional Republicans issues -- became too many things to too many people when it went too far down that road. When the actual group that matters to you are east coast multimillionaires (as demonstrated by how you actually govern and by where your funding comes from), it's really hard to pull off the rhetoric (because all any of this is, is rhetoric) it takes to be the party of the working man -- what they still tried to cling to.

I also think that there are some seriously changing demographics at work. Minorities are becoming a majority. I personally think this is fantastic in the long run for the social fabric of the country. Sometime toward the end of my life, I am looking forward to everyone looking like the same Puerto Rican person. But right now, both parties have been working from a script of divide people and pander. The smaller, and less insular, those groups become (until the tide turns and we get some serious miscegenation and everyone eventually looks Puerto Rican), the harder it is going to be to win an election that way. The thought of that (as I type it) actually makes me feel more hopeful about our country.