Posted on 03/03/2015 2:30:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
There must be a "drinking game" [or 2 or 3] in here somewhere.
Walker is racist?
Horse pooh.
This idiot thinks “right to work” without a union is racist?
".....As my colleague Alec MacGillis described last year in the New Republic, it’s how the former county executive became governor, survived a recall attempt, and won re-election. And if Walker can capture the nomination, it’s how he might win the White House, too.
Before heading there however, we should step back and look where the GOP stands in national politics.
Even with its midterm success last November, the Republican Party still has two challenges to meet before 2016. First, it has to learn to speak to fears over income inequality without committing to a specific agenda and limiting its course of action once in office. And second, it has to find some way to deal with the party’s pitiful showing with minority voters in the last presidential race. No, Republicans don’t need to win Latinos, Asians, or black Americans (the latter is probably impossible), but a better margin makes the White House an easier reach."....
...... After the 2012 presidential election, the conventional wisdom was that Republicans needed to win over a greater percentage of nonwhite voters. But at Real Clear Politics, senior election analyst Sean Trende argued the opposite. For him, “the most salient demographic change from 2008 to 2012 was the drop in white voters,” and specifically, “downscale, Northern, rural whites.” It’s unlikely that these voters were liberal, and if they were in the electorate, there’s a good chance they would have broken for Romney in large numbers.
More importantly, Trende argues that the floor for Democrats’ share of the white vote is lower—and the Republican ceiling higher—than is commonly understood. If that’s true, then the GOP has an alternative strategy to broadening the base—it can deepen its support with its existing coalition. Or as he writes:
Democrats liked to mock the GOP as the “Party of White People” after the 2012 elections. But from a purely electoral perspective, that’s not a terrible thing to be. Even with present population projections, there are likely to be a lot of non-Hispanic whites in this country for a very long time. Relatively slight changes among their voting habits can forestall massive changes among the non-white population for a very long while. The very white baby boom generation is just hitting retirement age, and younger whites, while unsurprisingly more Democratic than the baby boomers … still voted for Romney overall........."
Thank you.
Excerpt from his bio found here.
Bybee edited The Racine Labor weekly newspaper for 14 years in his hometown of Racine, Wis., where his grandfathers and father were socialist and labor activists, and Bybee played a leading role in fighting plant shutdowns. In 1988, he was selected as the local “Labor Person of the Year.”
He speaks for the Democratic Party.
btw - that is a great find with it’s connection to Scott Walker’s success, Wisconsin, unions and 2016!
Still more idiots who think the KKK is a republican organization.
A snip from your link:
“Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and University of Illinois visiting professor in Labor Education.
Roger’s work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, The Progressive, Progressive Populist, Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Yes! and Foreign Policy in Focus.
More of his work can be found at
zcommunications.org/zspace/rogerdbybee [now inactive] .”...............
libtard propaganda. they also erroneously blame the county exec for the city of milwaukee’s decline, not the democrat mayors and largely black democrat city council.
A blind person should be able to see what the Democrats have done to kill the economy of every city that they control.
I guess Walker’s success shows that the voters do see this.
Weak arguments.
Unsupported claims.
Factual errors.
Poorly written.
Must be lmillennial journalism.
It’s a good article. Well written. Leads the reader down the delusional rabbit hole quite well.
Best line:
“If the Republicans can downplay overt racial animus at an overt level while subliminally signifying their lack of sympathy for people of color, they can potentially build a durable coalition of whites,”
I can’t see anything wrong or racist in that.
Conservatism is about empowering the individual. Progressivism is about destroying the individual.
I bet most democrats who are, by their actions and words, clearly in favor of socialism would never admit they are socialists. These people have drunk the power of the "public servant" and cannot ever think of themselves as anything other than someone who has been anointed to rule.
Can’t get past the title. A Saul Alinsky ‘JEM’.
err... I mean ‘GEM ‘.
Wow! I just don’t know where to begin to address this mountain of sludge. In the end it’s not worth the time or effort to reason with the left; you just do what you can to defeat them, hoping that good judgement informed by the long history of failure of socialism/Marxism will rule the day.
Scott Walker Believes He’s Following Orders from the Lord
This is where that snark came from - Walker's talk to the Christian Businessmen’s Committee in Madison on November 13, 2009.
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