Posted on 08/09/2018 7:00:52 PM PDT by Ennis85
Millennials are the most likely fully adult generation to be registered as independents, and the most likely to vote for Democrats. A great part of this is due to biases in education and media, but blame also rests on the shoulders of Republican candidates, who have spent decades underappreciating the implications that changing U.S. demographics have for the party.
After Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss, the Republican establishment released an autopsy stressing the importance of Republicans working to make inroads with the country’s growing demographics, but the Republican base instead doubled down on the aggressive rhetoric and hardline policy stances that the leadership said was alienating the party from young voters.
Ever since the conservative movement came to dominate Republican politics, politicians have been able to rest assured that they will be able to win elections with rural and suburban votes. This wouldn’t have been a problem if the party hadn’t simultaneously ignored other demographics, withdrawing almost unilaterally from the urban communities that now dictate so much of our political lives.
Those voters are now reaching out. We could be< in a time of change, as this video from Chicago and the surprise primary win of Republican John James in Michigan suggest. Here are some ideas for pushing things like this closer to a tipping point.
Let’s Face It: Most Republican Voters Are Pretty Old
With the absence of Republicans willing to put effort into changing hearts and minds, Democrats have been able to present a generation of young people a vision of the Republican Party that is neither accurate nor flattering. Overwhelming majorities of people who live in urban communities, and a budding majority of suburbanites, favor Democrats, and are openly hostile to even the prospect of supporting the Republican Party.
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Not a very subtle, “Shut up and die off all ready white people, it’s our country now!”
A comment I came across that really makes me hope this isn’t a sign of things to come when it comes to young republicans;
“As a millennial republican frim Manhattan I fully agree with this. We need to make our party socially liberal and purely capitalist so support free trade deregulation low taxes and less government but socially support immigration, women’s abortive rights and gay marriage. Also suggest market friendly climate change measures. I work as a banker in Oil gas and mining and I can tell you from first hand experience our economy could boom snd we could save the planet and also create jobs and wealth. Don’t let the left monopolize this issue.”
LMAO.
Has this person been living in a bubble?
McCain, Graham and Rubio have tried this argument before, the GOP must embrace amnesty to get the hispanic and youth vote.
It’s still propaganda.
Young people and hispanics are responding positively to the strong leadership of President Trump attempting to restore the rule of law.
Exactly. Just do what Donald is doing and it benefits everyone. The KISS principle. Keep it simple stupid.
Here’s a suggestion on how to woo minority voters: fix the economy.
Oh, wait. The President already did that. Well then, he can just carry on with the non pandering.
Someday, democrats may follow our example and stop discriminating against black people.
Young people actually are saying exactly that. They resent anyone collecting social security, they think that’s *their* money.
The have a zero sum mentality. If seniors are getting something, that means the young people have to do without something.
I shudder at the thought that there are thousands of parents who borrowed against their *homes* to send their demented little brats, many of whom have clearly eaten way too many Tide Pods, to wildly overpriced indoctrination factories. And the kids came out even dumber than they were when they went in.
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