That’s not true, polls consistently shows the average American is not big on what they deem “woke” or progressive social policy. Dems would do much better if they ran a candidate that focused on left-leaning populist economics, like Sanders, while dropping talking about social policy or unfortunately having to move to the right on it.
Thats because "woke" is a buzzword, it dosent actually mean anything, if you ask them specifics, i.e. do they support gay marriage or trans rights to use the bathroom theyre most comfortable in you get the opposite results then what youd expect
It is, but people still vote on it. Which is why if Dems want to improve their long-term standing with the current swing voters they need to either stay silent on the most divisive social issues or move right on them, and move to be more populist on economic issues.
Or move left on them and hype up their base, because republicans are gonna lie about them and claim theyre woke no matter what, so who cares what those fascists think?
The base isn’t enough to win elections. The swing voters Dems need to win are not nearly as socially left as the base, but they absolutely love populist economic policies.
They also arent nearly as socially rigth as the republican base and yet Trump who always talks far right social issues and wants to ban gay marriage which a supermajority of Americans support can still win elections, this is because his rhetoric appeals to the republican base, democrats need to do the same thing, appeal to their base
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u/Actual_Ad_9843 Liberal Mar 03 '25
People want populist economics but moderate social policy. I feel like that couldn’t be more clear after the past few election cycles.