In Texas and around the country, Republicans simply must start doing better in cities and suburbs.
Until Republicans want to win as bad as Democrats nothing will change. The other big problem, as I see it, is that many of the big GOP donors are not in tune with the GOP base. They are progressive corportists just fine with single payer socialized medicine and open borders, unfortunately.
True, but we can’t just rely on our current base, we have to expand it. GOP donors and politicians are also not in touch with potential GOP voters in “blue” areas, and have no idea how to communicate with them. Why aren’t we aggressively campaigning among inner-city blacks, for instance? They are the worst-suffering victims of progressivism, and the way they are treated by the Democrats they elect is a joke. They would benefit more than anyone from reducing business-strangling regulations, punishing crime, liberalized gun laws, breaking the government school monopoly, the list goes on. We assume we can never break the Democrat stranglehold on the black vote, but have we ever seriously tried?