I’ve been mulling over some of what you’ve written here too for the past months - thanx for actually writing it down! In short, the GOP, pundit class, US Chamber of Commerce, et al must in actuality, not, want to win. I see no other possible conclusion given Trump’s demographic pulls. Or, perhaps, in their twisted view they do win when the rank and file lose.
Maybe everyone should stop talking about Goldwater and Buckley as saints and look toward the Reagan landslides. The heartbeat of the country took on the elites and gibsmesumodat crowd and emerged YUGE! literally saving the country for another 40 years.
“In short, the GOP, pundit class, US Chamber of Commerce, et al must in actuality, not, want to win.”
Yep, Rush has been perplexed also. Nothing made sense to him for a while. How do you rationalize creating 30 Million new voters, who are likely to be 75% Democrat, being a long-term strategy for keeping the Republican Party viable?
Then he started figuring it out. To people in the business world, the ones with (often) millions of dollars laying around, they don’t really care about anything but making more money in the short term, and if they can get cheap labor, that’s what they will demand for their money.
For the Dems, it’s a perfect fit...as they get the voters too. For the Republicans - the only conclusion was that big money today (i.e., for their salaries) was a higher priority than what kind of country they are leaving for their kids and grandkids. Unbelievable, but true - nothing else makes any sense.