Posted on 07/17/2016 3:10:32 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Republicans have wrestled for years with the push and pull of seeking to win over new groups of voters while tending to their overwhelmingly white and conservative base. Now, Mr. Trumps candidacy may force them into making a fateful choice: whether to fully embrace the Trump model and become, effectively, a party of white identity politics, or to pursue a broader political coalition by repudiating Mr. Trumps ideas and many of the voters he has gathered behind his campaign.
With his diatribes against Islam, immigration from Mexico and economic competition from Asia, Mr. Trump has amassed dominant support from restive white voters. His political approach would have Republicans court working-class and rural whites, mainly in the South and Midwest, at the grievous cost of alienating minorities and women, who often decide presidential races.
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The coalition that carried Mr. Trump to the nomination he will formally claim at the Republican National Convention this week in Cleveland is likely to remain a powerful force on the right, even if he is defeated in November. But its continued sway within the party could suffocate Republicans at the national level, stifling attempts to expand beyond a dwindling base of aggrieved older voters.
A starkly different path forward for Republicans would involve rejecting that base and the ideas that Mr. Trump has used to assemble it.
In order to build a winning party again, some Republican leaders say, the party will have to disavow Mr. Trumps exclusionary message, even at the price of driving away voters at the core of the Republican base perhaps a third or more of the party.
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Just look at the GOP in CA. They did reach out to everyone - illegals, black underclass, and gays. What has it gotten them. Permanent minority status. Theyre not even token opposition. The CA GOP simply moderated itself out of existence.
Exactly. They’re just “Me too Democrats”. If one likes Democrat policies, why vote for them instead of the “real thing”? And if one doesn’t approve of the Democrats, why vote for the Lite version?
Of course, only white people want to be safe and have a job.
Where are the BS and BARF Alerts?
The name is a synonym for barf.
Exactly...best response so far.
The events in the world show that others truly believe they only have 6 months (with Obama) to get their deeds done.
It is make hay while the sun shines, for the one to follow (DJT) will not be one to mess with.
Just look at what is happening to US assets in Turkey. I cringe!
A lof Republicans believe GOP needs to go Left to win.
Trump demolished the thesis.
If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing.
Voters see little reason to vote for a party that doesn’t care about them and their values.
Ryan and Flake think that’s exactly what the GOP must do to survive.
Lo and behold - the NYT agrees with them.
But I believeth it is too dang late for the scum inside the Beltway. There is time for the handful of good ones to come out.
Interesting. The reality is that the gop under Trump is actually reaching out to that most maligned and ignored group in a America: the working and middle classes.
The Silver Slut and it’s allies in politics are so immersed in identity politics and invested in the static definitions of groups that they’ve missed (or are choosing to ignore) the rise of the working class as a distinct group that crosses their oh so precious race and sex lines.
Why are Whites not allowed to vote their interests? Will they be allowed to when they are a minority? That day is coming soon. Something tells me that they still won’t be allowed to.
Spot on and California is the poster child of the results of such idiotic logic all in the name of it makes me FEEL better to have guilt.
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