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To: MaxFlint

Morale doesn’t decide elections. Demographics do. That was the point I started making here years ago.

We need to work with demographics, not against them. Otherwise we’ll have fewer and fewer years in the Executive over the next two generations. And God help us if those demographics start voting in midterms.


132 posted on 11/08/2016 9:42:36 AM PST by jackmercer
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To: jackmercer
We need to work with demographics, not against them.

As I suspected you're another one of those "we need to reach out to minorities" anti-conservatives. (And very likely a closeted Never Trumper)

Most minorities vote Democrat because they're liberals. The only way for the GOP to reach out to them... actually, there is no way. The usual suggestion is to become more liberal, but why would a liberal vote for watered down liberal Republicans when they can vote for the real thing.

At the same time as it fails to bring in black and hispanic votes this approach would also alienate the GOP base.

The only alternative is to energize the existing base by becoming more consistently pro-American, pro-border control, and anti-globalist, ditching "free trade" and siding with American workers. The minority voters we already have are with us because they're conservative so they would be fine with this. We won't lose any of the genuinely "naturally conservative" hispanics (usually around 35% or so). Plus we bring back the blue collar workers the two Bush's neoconservative globalism lost.

That's how we can do as well with our base as Democrats do with theirs.

That's the only path to victory.

133 posted on 11/08/2016 9:58:28 AM PST by MaxFlint
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To: jackmercer
Morale doesn’t decide elections.

I guess we won't see this defeatist around here for another four years. If I'm still alive I'll be waiting to remind everyone of his efforts to demoralize us on the eve of the greatest victory since Reagan's in 1980.

137 posted on 11/12/2016 5:15:28 AM PST by MaxFlint
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