Why a Republican Pollster Is Losing Faith in Her Party (You're the reason, naturally)

The Atlantic ^ | August 31, 2017 | Ronald Brownstein

[wbill]

So...... she’s a democrat.

[Red Badger]

Now she is wondering whether Donald Trump’s GOP has a place for people like her, who want a party that marries support for less government and robust national defense with a commitment to racial and social inclusion.

Less government?........she must be delusional................

[dirtboy]

Anderson’s fear is that in a rapidly diversifying America, Trump is stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash—and that too much of the party’s base is comfortable with that. Trump’s morally stunted response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month unsettled her. But she was even more unnerved by polls showing that most Republican voters defended his remarks.

Another moron who cannot stand the truth being told.

[dirtboy]

Anderson’s fear is that in a rapidly diversifying America, Trump is stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash—and that too much of the party’s base is comfortable with that. Trump’s morally stunted response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month unsettled her. But she was even more unnerved by polls showing that most Republican voters defended his remarks.

Another moron who cannot stand the truth being told.

[sparklite2]

Now she is wondering whether Donald Trump’s GOP has a place for people like her, who want a party that marries support for less government and robust national defense with a commitment to racial and social inclusion.

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Well, bless your heart. If you expect Trump’s supporters to get behind social liberalism, get ready to be disappointed.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not interested enough to read it, but I bet she thinks amnesty is the answer.

[Garth Tater]

TLDR;

Don't let the door hit your backside on the way out hunny.

[Secret Agent Man]

Republican Pollster ==> Republican Parasite

[HenpeckedCon]

Not interested enough to read it, but I bet she thinks amnesty is the answer.
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Of course, and massively increasing the amount of “refugees” the US accepts.

[Bryanw92]

I hear this same talk from church “experts”. They tell you to water down your message, hide your beliefs, become the alternative in everything but name. What they fail to understand is that if we stand for nothing, then why does it matter if we exist at all? I don’t care if the party called “Republican” wins another election. I care about certain values that the Republican party seems to have and the Democrat party definitely does not have.

Same for church. If we have to become the “Church of What’s Happenin’ Now” to attract people, then let’s just dissolve it and sleep in on Sundays.

If Republicans have to become Democrats to win, then I’ll vote for the Democrats because they already won and we all need to be registered as a Loyal Party Member at that point!

[Fiddlstix]

[Bryanw92]

>>Less government?........she must be delusional................

She probably means less state and local government, because Transnational Progressives like her would call FedGov their god.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"who are attracted by his winks toward white identity politics."

Is the Atlantic nuts? That is all we get 365/24/7 from MSM, Dems, GOPe, NYT, WaPo: Identity politics. In fact that is the only kind of politics they know. They are obsessed with identity politics.

Hey lady, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split ya!

[taxcontrol]

Anderson’s fear is that in a rapidly diversifying America, Trump is stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash—and that too much of the party’s base is comfortable with that.

President Trump is NOT stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash. It is the narrative of the MSM that Trump is stamping the GOP as a party of white racial backlash. The vast majority of Americans understand that difference. Apparently Anderson does not.

[MrEdd]

It’s our fault she has a room temperature IQ.

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[ifinnegan]

In other words, I will work for Democrats, so please hire me.

[reformedliberal]

Thru a glass, darkly. Her preconceptions filter her conclusions.

Why do the pollsters ignore the Gen Xers? They are 40s-50s, now. Where do they stand? Are they lumped into the increase in *white nationalists* flocking to Trump?

There are over 400k members on r/T_D, most, from what I can tell, older than millennials and younger than Boomers. Like FR, they are not all Caucasian. Their younger siblings, so-called Gen Z, will vote in the next series of elections and the Internet censorship is driving them rightward.

What sort of pollster holds these fears and still works for the GOP(e). (rhetorical)

I think Brownstein and his ilk at the Atlantic are hoping for a Deus Ex Machina in the form of a third party composed of moderate GOP.

It’s going to be a nail-biting couple of elections coming.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Maybe the Greens can put together some money to hire her.