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Democrats Embracing The Far Left is Backfiring

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4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Democrats Embracing The Far Left is Backfiring as the far left keeps taking actions that results in Republicans making gains.

As more people on the left eschew Liberals for Leftists we can see the Republicans making gains in the polls. Most Americans support general social justice and feminism, but authoritarian tactics causes moderates to move to the right.

Even if you support certain ideals embracing the far left means you will lose the support you need to get you ideas into politics.

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0:00.0

A couple days ago, somebody posted on Facebook how they approached a man wearing a magehat

0:04.3

and started swearing at this person.

0:06.1

I asked, why would you do this?

0:07.9

They claimed, shaming people works, and by screaming at a Trump supporter, they're going

0:12.3

to convince them not to support Trump.

0:14.1

I said, no, it won't.

0:16.2

You're going to make them dig in their heels and seek validation from those who do support

0:20.0

Trump.

0:21.0

The best way to change people's minds is to be a friend to that person so they're receptive

0:24.7

to new ideas, not to insult them and attack them.

0:27.5

But they disagreed and the threat devolved into calling me a Nazi, and that's where we

0:31.6

are.

0:32.6

I feel like the left is its own worst enemy, because they keep doing things that hurt themselves.

0:37.8

With the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, we've got people calling for mobilization and riots

0:42.5

if he is confirmed.

0:43.8

But we know for a fact that riots make people vote conservative.

0:47.5

I have the data to back that up.

0:49.5

We even saw riots all throughout the country leading up to the 2016 election.

0:52.6

I don't know not saying that's the reason Trump got elected, but I bet it absolutely

0:56.4

did contribute.

0:58.0

We also have data from NPR, showing that the Kavanaugh Ford hearing roused the GOP base

1:03.8

and took away the Democrats' advantage in the midterm elections.

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