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He’ll win next year +10.
These people are angry now but they hate Democrats too much to vote for them.
Then run a left leaning independent with messaging packaged for them to agree with. A lot on the right wanted Sanders in 2016. Medicare/Medicaid for all. Tax breaks for working families and raising taxes on corporations and the ultra wealthy.
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This messaging would have to read "I'm gonna put everything back where it belongs: gays back in the closet, blacks back on the plantations, immigrants back in the jungle, and women back in the kitchen."
They hate others, period. They hate whoever their fascist media diet tells them to hate. They would rather burn the country to the ground than to accept that a minority somewhere gets the same privilege that they do. This is the only thing they vote on.
That doesn't seem to be born out in policy or the media though....
https://www.omahadailyrecord.com/content/survey-suggests-nebraskans-support-taxing-billionaires
Here is an article written back in 2024 where support for tax cuts for the rich (which is part of why Flood got shouted down at the town hall) is dubios and some Republican state representatives call dubious benefit if you project the Nebraskan budget to 2027....
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/legislators-tax-experts-preview-upcoming-debates-on-nebraska-tax-policy/
I'm not saying that all Nebraskans even know about any of this, but the frothing evil hate mongering voters you're referring to, don't seem to be the majority. They exist, and they're loud, but they're not the sole voting population of Nebraska. And frankly I agree with you. Nebraska deserves better. We all deserve better.
I'm happy Flood got shouted down and I hope there are more public demonstrations decrying what's been rotting at the core of this country. Billionaires hoarding wealth and creating massive inequality intersectionally throughout the whole of society.