The Way Forward
As a lifelong political geek and former SNP and Alba Party member, I’ve spent years supporting Scotland’s independence movement. However, over the last few years, I’ve watched the campaign (as opposed to support for independence) wither away. Being a Scottish nationalist has become increasingly disheartening, like watching someone you love succumb to a slow, debilitating illness. In frustration, I switched off from my homeland and turned my focus to the drama of US politics.
Over the last three years I immersed myself in it, watching both left and right-wing outlets. I became so hooked and invested that I jumped on a plane to Washington DC for the 2024 election. I canvassed with DC Democrats in rural Pennsylvania (that’s me third from the left in the pic below), attended Kamala Harris’s concession rally, and went to Trump’s only watch party in DC.
My journey led me to believe that Scotland’s independence campaign could learn a great deal from Trump’s victory and the Democrats’ failure.
Many were surprised by Trump’s win, but I expected (and wanted) it. However even I was surprised he won the popular vote, the first time a Republican has done so in 20 years. The signs, however, of his huge and comprehensive triumph were there.
Trump’s victory was a masterclass in coalition-building, which should be a lesson for the Scottish independence movement. The GOP has now become the party of the working class across all racial lines, something Bernie Sanders would be envious of. Trump, however did something even more significant – he won over traditionally Dem-leaning groups, including 30 % of black men under 45 and 43% of the Latino vote.
(Largely by not antagonising it by calling it “Latinx”.)
Trump didn’t need to win the majority of the Black or Latino vote to win; he simply needed to eat into enough of the margins to weaken the Democrats’ base. His appeal wasn’t limited to just the working class but spanned education levels, age groups, and urban, suburban, and rural communities. This broad coalition of support is rare in modern politics but essential for any movement that needs to win not merely a plurality in a multi-party election, but an absolute majority of the electorate.
If Scotland’s independence movement is serious about independence, it needs to take this approach seriously. Real progress lies in reaching across demographic lines, building a broad-based coalition that can stand strong in the face of opposition and MSM attacks and being massively financially outspent, just like Trump’s did.
(Because the Yes vote will ALWAYS face those huge disadvantages.)
Polls consistently show that inflation and the cost of living were top concerns for voters. While canvassing in rural Pennsylvania, almost everyone I spoke to mentioned inflation, food prices, and illegal immigration. Working-class and middle-class voters overwhelmingly felt they were better off economically under Trump, while wealthier, college-educated voters stuck with the Democrats.
While the Dems talked about the stock market the reality is most Americans don’t have money in the stock market. They don’t care if Wall Street is thriving when they’re struggling to pay bills or buy a home. The average age of first-time homebuyers in the US is now at an all-time high of 38. Yet the Democrats focused on niche policies like student loan forgiveness, which mainly benefits wealthy college grads (ie the people that staffed the Harris campaign).
Given that over half of Americans never attend college, it’s no surprise the average voter didn’t feel those policies were for them.
Trump tapped into populism both economic and political, and this strategy should be the guiding light for Scotland’s independence campaign. If it’s ever to succeed, its message must centre on economic security for everyone. This means, for one thing, being pragmatic about oil – Scotland’s government should do everything it can to preserve the Grangemouth refinery.
(With Trump sitting in the White House, Scotland’s pitiful, voter-repelling but cripplingly expensive efforts at Net Zero become infinitely more futile than they already were. Any microscopic contribution we could make to reducing world CO2 would be dwarfed a thousand times over by the vast clouds of extra carbon belching out of his USA.)
But it’s more than oil. We need a balanced economy that fosters entrepreneurship, not just the public sector.
Populist policies which would appeal to all Scots which a smart Scottish Government could do to win back trust would be to eliminate free tuition for frivolous and pointless courses such as gender studies and sociology and instead use the money saved for business start-up grants to promote young entrepreneurship, axing air passenger duty which would lead to cheaper flights, more flight routes and economic growth (as well as putting some distance between them and the wildly unpopular Greens after the disaster of the Bute House Agreement).
The US election proved that economic populism, not technocratic solutions, gains traction. The SNP has missed this point by focusing for far too many years on narrow and toxic social policies. It needs to concentrate on the bread-and-butter issues that could win over undecided Scots across demographics.
What of another hot-button topic? When Biden took office, he swiftly reversed most of Trump’s executive orders on immigration, leading to at least 21 million undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. The Democrats downplayed the scale of the border crisis for 3 years, only proposing a weak border bill earlier this year when polls showed it had become a major issue.
Trump’s appeal on immigration was clear. Not only were border states struggling, frustrations and pressures were felt in northern Democrat sanctuary cities. The left’s response was to dismiss these concerns or label them as racist, which alienated large swathes of voters.
This out-of-touch attitude was exemplified by ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz, who downplayed the issue of Venezuelan gangs taking over areas of Colorado by saying that “only a handful of apartment complexes” were overtaken. Raddatz, like many in the media, lives in an affluent neighbourhood detached from the realities faced by working-class Americans.
The same mistakes should not be repeated in Scotland. The general political party consensus is that Scotland wants mass immigration, illegal or otherwise. But the reality is Scotland receives a disproportionately small fraction of the immigration of the UK.
If we had the same level as down south and the accompanying economic and social pressures, the liberal virtue-signalling would quickly evaporate. It’s naive to assume that Scots are somehow magically immune to the kind of backlash the US and UK have seen. Reform are already starting to make serious inroads.
That’s not to say Scotland doesn’t need immigration – and particularly skilled workers – but the real question is, why are skilled immigrants not not flocking to progressive Scotland, instead choosing to stay in the supposedly far-right and bigoted England?
“Progressive” brings us neatly to another major factor. Core issues like immigration, the economy and crime were pivotal in Trump’s win, but trans issues also played a crucial role in alienating voters from the Dems, and in particular the swing voters who decide every US election, and who said Harris’ stance on gender ideology was THE most important factor that persuaded them to vote for Trump.
Most people support equal rights for trans people, but the extreme push on issues like gender self-ID and biological men in women’s sports has gone too far for the large majority of the general public, culminating in a Democrats policy that sounds like it was invented as a joke by (right-wing US satire site) The Babylon Bee – taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery for transgender illegal-immigrant prison inmates.
For many voters, such policies drove them to demand a return to “common sense” by voting for Trump, and he wasn’t slow to focus on it, devoting a huge proportion of his campaign spending to what he correctly identified as Harris’ Achilles heel.
To understand what a significant difference a 2.7-point shift is, it’s only necessary to note that Trump eventually won the popular vote by just 1.8 points.
The centrepiece of Trump’s final campaign ad was male Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, an almost pantomimic villain who perfectly encapsulated in two seconds the revulsion most voters felt about his gold medal in the women’s Olympic boxing.
(The true genius of this strategy, incidentally – a point spectacularly missed by left-wing US commentators like Jon Stewart and John Oliver – is that Harris couldn’t rebut the attacks, because talking about the policies in any way would only have drawn even more attention to how poisonously unpopular they were with voters.)
The lesson for Scotland here is that the independence campaign should avoid divisive “woke” policies—whether it’s gender, climate alarmism, radical feminism or foreign wars, all of which played terribly for Harris. Most people don’t care about these issues, and certainly don’t want them to take centre stage in a future independence movement or government agenda.
Independence should be about getting Scotland out from under Westminster’s thumb, not pushing side issues that fracture support. Politics is simple maths: it’s addition, not subtraction. Every vote lost needlessly over a fringe issue is twice as hard to win back.
Trump built a broad coalition right across racial and socioeconomic lines by addressing voters’ concerns, not by telling them they were extremist bigots. The Democrats lost because they stopped listening and hectored and lectured instead. If the SNP keeps pushing “woke” agendas that ignore the concerns of 99% of Scots, they’ll lose too.
The only “true” Indy Party is said (by many here) to be Alba, which got 1.7% of the vote in the 2021 MSP election, 0.5% of the vote in the 2024 UK election, and has averaged 1% of the vote in recent council by-elections.
I think we’re seeing a trend here….
Alba could only find one candidate to run in the next 6 upcoming council by-elections.
These are the telltale signs of a lifeless, microbe party.
The SNP is just a bunch of corrupt, inept, woke, leftist careerists, and Alba is nowhere.
And you’re a Tory.
You’re 100% wrong again, “James.”
I’ve never voted Conservative/Tory. As I’ve posted before.
BTW, shouldn’t you care more about the truth of my comment, than who is pointing out the truth?
Whereas Reform UK on the other hand, is showing a real possibility of uniting the Unionist centre right. Time will tell.
If Alba is such an insignificant microbe, why do you keep going on about it?
Alba got 8.7% in Inverclyde West.
on a 25% turnout and a few hundred votes…..a fraction higher than Reform
One of the problems in 2014 was that any time Sturgeon was near a microphone she’d start proclaiming, “No more Tory governments!” I thought then, as I do now, that it was a bad idea to be running a campaign where you’re telling 500,000 voters that they can GTF before they’ve even gone to the polling station.
Aside from that, while the above article is all very sensible, it’s too late for the SNP. The rot (infiltration?) is in too deep.
A friend of mine is married to a Latin-American girl. At the time of the Referendum she was subjected to racial abuse by SNP supporters. Do you suppose for a moment that I could ever forget that? Basically the SNP is a racist organisation, the racism being directed principally against “the English”. But occasionally the dimmer supporters will let the cat out of the bag.
Don’t believe a word of that.
I was out and about like many in 2024, the only aggression came from the Unionists and most of them were OK as well
2014 not 2024
That can safely be filed under ‘Things That Didn’t Happen’.
If it *had* happened the BBC would’ve had it on their website within hours and the DR would’ve had it plastered across their front page the following day.
Don’t You think the biggest racist by far are the colonialists English.? Is it not much more racist to hold down another country against its will then any perceived slight.
Errr…didn’t the Scots vote “no” in 2014? Grow up and listen to the bloke writing the article. Head – in – sand politics allied with racial stereotypes loses elections. Insult me as an Englishman, and you’ll make an enemy. Debate your opponents, win on the merits of your argument, and be a grown up.
Tell the truth and shame the devil!
Scots are racist in about the same proportion as the English, who are racist in about the same proportion as the best of the rest of the world.
Scots enthusiastically colonised and exterminated indigenous peoples around the world, in about the same proportions as the English did, and together with the Irish and Welsh, we occupied around one quarter of the world.
It’s debatable if we were any worse than the Spanish, who decimated and destroyed all of the New World’s major civilisations and advanced cultures, almost single-handed.
Many of us Scots are still in denial about all of that, as can clearly be seen by the other responses to your post.
Voters are refusing to support the SNP but for reasons that are by no means obvious, these same voters are refusing to vote for any other independence party.
Sorry, but the reasons on the contrary are very obvious and felt by the whole population of Scotland.
Remember the days of FM Alex S.
The SG/SNP was known for getting things done, building bridges, Railway lines, reform of SNHS, prescriptions, schooling, etc, etc,etc..
AND all done with the paltry monies that WM kindly gave us back from our treasure trove of taxes that we gifted to England.
The main issue was making Scotland work and be a better place to live in than before.
Anyone could live their lives as they saw fit and didn’t break the law.
Independence started to glimmer through.
All that was inherited by Nikla S. who had the chance with blockbuster majorities to continue and finish off the legacy that Alex left her.
Obviously Nikla (the mad) didn’t give a flying f. about Alex and blew up the chances by doing nothing with mandates but loved the bull s**t.
But the weirdest thing of all was the mad push for Trans Gender woo woo which crept in and pushed all of the day to day concerns of the working population out of view.
Steve Daley proves it with the USA, go woke – go broke.
Trump is a nutcase – BUT the alternative is “WTF…!”
We have our own home-made version.
The Britnats are WM loving nutcases – BUT our alternative is SNP woo woo – WTF…!
Election for election the SNP is on its way out.
I agree that SNP were incompetent and divisive. And that it wasn’t always so.
But this is a canard:
“AND all done with the paltry monies that WM kindly gave us back from our treasure trove of taxes that we gifted to England”.
There are 5-6 million of you in Scotland and if we exclude babies, old people, adolescents and the ill, that’s going to be a tiny amount of economic impact. There are 68 million of your friends in England and Wales. I accept that Wales may not be an economic powerhouse, but England ia different matter. Added to which, of course, the average Scot gets £1200 more than the average UK citizen through the formula.
No doubt I’ll get lacerated over this here, but please tell me how 2 million of you (?) can outproduce, say, 45 million of those others. Are we all working at McDonald’s? And you are all surgeons?
A massive vote for ALBA and ISP in the Holyrood election, even if it’s only on the list vote, would mark the start of the necessary change.
Much to agree with there, and some very interesting information that hasn’t been widely publicised. Got to ask though – why do you say you campaigned for Harris but wanted a Trump victory? Not being difficult or rhetorical here, just genuinely confused.
I had the exact same thought ; though , he does say he canvassed WITH the Dems , not FOR them . Presumably he was interested in how the Dems were canvassing , and the reaction they were getting ” on the doorstep “
I have to ask: if you expected & wanted Trump to win, why did you campaign with the Democrats for Harris? I can understand wanting to learn both sides of the issue, but it isn’t as if I’d go out canvassing for No if I wanted Yes to win.
Canvassing and campaigning are different things.
The picture above shows him holding a Harris / Walz placard (third from left, as stated). That is not just canvassing. There is something we are not being told. Did Daley got to the US in 2024 wanting a Trump win? If so why be in a publicity shot where you are clearly promoting Harris?
I take the points made in the article about why Trump won, but that is long way from saying you wanted Trump to win; and that is not discussed.
That is what I thought. Now that Trump’s nominees for Cabinet and other positions requiring Senate confirmation are pretty much complete, does the author still want a Trump presidency.
the Republican Party has not become the party of the working class. Instead, too many of them believed Trump’s lies. Let’s see where we are in four years. Voters have multiple identities. The working class voter can just as easily identify as black or Hispanic who lean socially conservative and feel that the Democrats have moved too far left.
Despite taking the wrong route, this piece does reach the right conclusion. We need to focus on what actually matters to voters. The Democratic Party has become lazy and have forgotten that our votes are only on loan. I did vote for Harris but, beyond that, voted Republican, Libertarian, Democratic and, in one instance, a protest vote for a Green against a Democratic incumbent who need not be near public office.
Incidentally, more than half of Americans attend college. The first two numbers in the link add up to 37%. The 15% who attend college, but did not graduate, still attended college.
Very truthfully spoken and an excellent observation based in fact. Trump didn’t need to win, he just needed the Democrats to push their own ordinary voters away, with labels and smears if they didn’t agree 100% with everything they were proposing.
The SNP, like the Democrats, see anyone that disagrees with one of they’re trans policies as right wing bigots and enemies of the party.
If by some miracle an independence vote surfaces, they’ll push yes people away by labeling them bigots and transphobic, normal people won’t vote for people that treat them as the enemy.
It’ll be doomed before starts.
The last sentence presumes the SNP are going to try for independence.
Interesting article, Steve. But of course the good ‘ol USA isn’t Scotland (thankfully), one glaring difference being control of the media. Scottish Independence supporters aren’t even allowed billboards (owned by ‘UK’ companies obviously) if the owner’s don’t like the message or politics.
And the mainstream state media here is 100% biased against our cause. The UN shouldn’t allow this.
“If Scotland is to win independence, the message must centre on economic security for everyone.”
Absolutely – there’s only one answer – to everything that’s going wrong here, as long as we don’t allow the hijacking of government and it’s institutions again by carpetbaggers as she who shall not be named and her acolytes have managed previously.
“Trump’s appeal on immigration was clear. Not only were border states struggling..”
Most of Scotland’s immigration currently consists of retired people from the rUK who bring nothing but pressure to our public services and (mostly) UK jingoism.
Try visiting our ‘border states’ the Borders and D&G and see how long it takes before you hear a Scottish accent….
“The general political party consensus is that Scotland wants mass illegal or otherwise.”
I don’t think anyone is promoting illegal immigration? Or did I miss that? And of course until we’re independent we have no border controls and no say.
“That’s not to say Scotland does [not] need immigration – particularly skilled workers – but the real question is, why are skilled immigrants not not flocking to progressive Scotland, instead choosing to stay in the supposedly far-right and bigoted England?”
Maybe one of the reasons is that England likes to keep most of the new projects – and jobs – to itself? Largest wind farm in Europe off Scotland’s east coast, the main power cables – and the jobs – appear at Blyth, in Northumbria.
Grangemouth to close affecting thousands of jobs, leaving England [which doesn’t produce any oil] with five [FIVE] oil refineries and Scotland with none.
‘GB Energy’ – a brass plate in Aberdeen but the CEO
– and all the jobs – to be based in Manchester.
The proposed new ‘Great British Railway’ [lol] will be headquartered in….Derby. The list goes on….
I would say that with support at 52%+ THE ‘populist’ issue to go with is Independence – nothing less?
You need to get out more, James. I see billboards everywhere.
The law says you need planning permission to erect a fixed billboard. Businesses get around that by plastering advertising material on boards fixed to trailers, or on the side of scrapped vans or trucks – anything with wheels.
And having wheels, these billboards are not “fixed” and thus can remain where they are for years on end.
As for the MSM being opposed, Trump overcame 8 solid years of MSM opposition.
I could go on, but you’ve already given your reasons why you don’t intend to change tack, so why should I bother with you?
“The UN shouldn’t allow this” – why don’t you give them a call and see if they’ll come round and close the BBC. I’m sure you’ll get a warm reception.
Honestly the state of some of the comments on here.
We have far less floating voters in this country most are entrenched in historical political past and to many people voting are doing so along the lines of the football team they support you could be offering every man women and child a million quid in certain quarters and they still would not vote for Indy . Same for many who would never vote unionist for similar reasons. The SNP have further diluted (women’s vote) an already diluted voter base add to that real Indy voters don’t trust them and they are fucked.
The Indy Movement has a major problem due to the D’Hondt system and the SNP voters. Holyrood will have a large SNP Party for decades to come. That Party has no interest in working with other groups.
I believe that the majority of Scots still want Independence but they fall into two camps…
a) I have to stick with the SNP and hope they change
b) I will never vote for the treacherous TransCult SNP
That division is going to continue for as long as the SNP exist. Those who designed the D’Hondt system may not have intended this bonus outcome, but the Unionists will embrace it.
Tbh I think most of us know what should be done.
But the current SNP are incapable of doing what must be done
Either by design or by default.
The current SNP are compromised.
Why do I mention them because it will take time for the other independence parties to come through.
What with Freeports and SEZ, we’re in deep shit right now
Labour are winning because independence voters are staying home not because the majority think they’re any good.
Such is the state of the SNP that their woke faction would rather lose than give an inch of ground on their toxic waco policies. It has adopted the character more of a religion in some ways, rather than a pragmatic political movement. Outside of the SNP there just isn’t a serious political movement now (rip Alex), and way too much indulgence of complete dead ends (Salvo).
I’m looking forwards to building a “broad-based coalition” on Wings BTL.
Indy support is flatlined at 45%, so Indy needs a 6% swing for a majority. By reaching out to monarchists, Atlanticists, Brexit supporters and instinctive small ‘c’ conservatives (maybe a few Tories) too, that 6% should be easy to get.
“Politics is simple maths: it’s addition, not subtraction”
Amen, brother.
Of the issues Steve correctly identifies as toxic for the Harris campaign ( which will be the same for SNP in ’26 ) and agreeing very fundamental things things like Inflation/cost of living , job security/losses were critical in the outcome – my sense is Immigration was the decisive one . And will be the defining issue in future G.Es – in England anyway .
As Steve says …..we , in Scotland , haven’t experienced anything like the same levels of immigration ( yet ) but already Reform are gaining ground here , and we can be fairly sure it is doing so on the back of this issue .
It’s probably the oldest – and often most effective – dog whistle issue used in adversarial politics .
When things are shit for most people in any given country – the product usually of the shit people they have * representing * them – the go-to deflection is to blame ” the other ” . That and war of course , ie the ultimate Weapon of Mass Distraction .
Economy in tatters due to clueless Politicians ?
Start looking for scapegoats : Foreigners are best for this purpose .
Either in their own ( ” shithole ” ) countries doing things we don’t like , eg existing .
Or ” over here ” doing things we don’t like , eg having a different skin colour .
The * beauty * of this from the POV of those espousing these views is – in the latter instance – if people are really struggling , it’s much easier to convince them the fault lies with ” all those foreigners getting everything handed to them ” than the fault lying with the Political Parties that support , promote and maintain a system that thrives on economic disequilibrium ; that needs ” losers ” that there may be ” winners ” .
The paradigmatic example of that is Thickoe Parasite Charlie 3 arriving by limousine to open another what’s euphemistically being called ” Food Distribution Centres ” aka Food Banks and being fckn applauded for doing so . To increase the serf-mentality factor even more , the loyal little subjects sang Happy Birthday to Chic The Prick as he entered the Food Bank .
The symbolism burns into the face .
All that said …..we’re long passed the time when politicians in Scotland should be addressing contentious issues like Immigration honestly ; stop ignoring people’s concerns and refusing to acknowledge that immigration has serious negatives along with whatever positives it may have : that the people directly affected by such are not ” racists ” , ” bigots ” or any the other insults that are hurled at them for expressing their dissatisfaction with what is being imposed on them by Politicians who themselves live far from the areas where immigrants typically end-up – ie the poorest , deprived areas of big cities .
I’ll take the latter seriously on the issue when they start opening Immigrant Hostels/Hotels in places like Morningside , Kelvinside , Newton Mearns etc .
I won’t be holding my breath
A lot of what the Dems did wrong mirrored what Corbyn did wrong in 2019. They didn’t engage voters outwith their core & when confronted by undecided voters were stuck in their own ideologies so you had Labour activists in 2019 calling people ‘bigots’ while telling them in some cases to vote Tory which they did.
The Harris campaign did something similar by calling Trump a dangerous lunatic (which he is) as well as slagging off his voters and guess what? They lost them and undecided voters. All of this as well seems to have made people stay away from the polls as neither candidate was cutting it with them.
Fact it people didn’t just feel poor under Biden, but letting basics like law and order collapse, the illegal immigration crisis & things like transgenderism are rotting sored created or encouraged by the Dems but when Trump used these subjects, the Dems ignored or dismissed them. However there are Venezuelan criminal gangs in NYC operating sex slavery networks, robbing people and indulging in human trafficking. There are prepubescent children having mutilating ‘gender affirming’ surgery. Men are hurting women in sport and being called progressive for it. The very concept of homosexuality is at risk, while paedophilia activists grow more brazen all the time. All under Biden’s watch.
So Americans voted against it. They want people to go to prison for robbery. They want to protect kids and women. Now, Trump is hardly a protector of women but he knew how to use those fears to win.
Meanwhile the ‘progressive’ left rage throwing around conspiracy theories, leaving Twitter for Blue-sky which has quickly become Twitter 2017-2021 and are spitting out unhinged hate at Trump voters which only helps keep these people far away from voting Democrat. Instead of reflection and admitting failure they’re digging in.
Labour in 2024 learned enough on the Trans issue to sound more in line with how most people are. It probably saved and won them votes as its an issue that’s going to be even bigger in 2026 so if a party takes a sceptical line at least it stands not to lose too many votes. The Greens will dig in of course but if the SNP do, then they’re going to be lucky to even be the 3rd largest party.
Also, the Dems using the term ‘Latinx’ lost them their traditional base and sent Latino voters to Trump. The Dems were so out of touch and patronising they pushed Latino voters to support someone who might deport them. That’s how bad the Dems were.
Insightful article.
As opposed to mimicking 10 year old American trends like a cargo culture the SNP should have taken a leaf out of the authors book and actually assessed what the results are there 10 years ahead of when we stumble blindly into the same outcomes.
So it’s always been; the curse of blinkered brainwashed social engineers.
Wake up SNP; “WOKE IS BROKE”.
Anyway, we should start a poll on the most disliked Xmas tv ad. What gets your goat more, ASDAs tranny gnome or Boots Brat culture Santa-land offfering?
Satans little helpers indeed..
Check out the EE advert highlighting data poverty at Christmas.
It’s an unfolding tragedy – some moby users reach their data limits before the end of the month and then … well, you can imagine the hardship, heartache and despair.
And you can picture the nightmare scene playing out in homes across the nation. Christmas morning, and your moby is out of minutes and texts.
I’m welling up just writing about it.
“But the reality is Scotland receives a disproportionately small fraction of the immigration of the UK.”
But it receives a much larger fraction of immigration from the UK. Call it internal immigration if you like. But there are areas in Scotland with gie few Scottish voices and a lot of pensioners who come for the better social policies here but skew our demographic balance and thus economic potential. Though it is interesting how many of the top jobs in Scotland aren’t going to Scots…
Immigration to a country is still immigration even if the people are the same colour and even if they come from the country next door. You know the one making sure we never get another referendum and pretending there is no other way to independence.
As for radical feminism being a woke policy, I’m not sure you know what radical feminism is because radfems are the ones who have been spearheading the fight back against gender ideology.
The author is correct is stating though, that we should be concentrating of attracting voters, not putting them off! And there are lessons to be learned from how Trump’s campaign got him (a man singularly unsuited to the role) re-elected. We’ll always be outspent but we need to make each penny count. An interesting article but unfortunately the SNP aren’t taking us anywhere anytime soon!
So without that 2.7 swing
Kamala Harris would be President-elect by the same margin that Trump is
So sweeping statements about the USA based on such fine margins are misleading
Especially if you take into account about half the adult population didn’t vote at all
“Most people support equal rights for trans people…” – what does that even mean?
One of the things which I felt was counter productive during the 2014 campaign was the focus on anti NATO/nuclear/Faslane issues. It was a distraction which pushed a lot of voters away. The pro Brexit campaign showed that a refusal to address individual issues is a plus rather than a negative feature.
Hi All, sounds like a very acurate analysis i will keep mine simple, because in the end and especially over there things are simple and binary whatever people say. In a ” religious ” country when a guy escape a murder attempt ( i wish i was a tiny wee mouse hidden behind that desk to actually watch where that scratch to the ear came from) from a guy hidden in plain sight, it is God will that he survived. He survived to show everyone the path to greatness again and whether you are a US affiliated catholic or protestant , that counts … White, black, spanish there is no better candidate than a messiah saved by the f. holly spirit… what a crazy broken world we live in.