“Republicans should not buy into this hogwash about the Democratic party being directionless and lost.”
I respectfully disagree. I certainly see your points, but the Democratic Party is a mess right now. The mainstream media makes it look like they’re unified/strong with the various stupid protests and what-not, but that party is a complete disaster outside of the West coast and the Northeast. They took a major nosedive during Obama’s Reign of Pain :-). Sure, they won the “popular vote”, but that’s worthless in our Republic. Most states have taken a turn to the right.
The Dems made a fatal mistake when they started calling “blue collar whites” “uneducated whites”. That turned the Rust Belt into a battleground. They lost a majority of the working class. This is going to spill into the working class black community sooner rather than later. That’s when you’ll start to see GOP gains in the black community ... gains the media won’t be able to hide. That’s also when you’ll start to see some ridiculously sickening, blatant racism from the far left (it’ll include Hollywood and a lot of the puppets that parrot Dem talking points daily).
If Trump somehow lays down the narrative to clean up a city like Chicago, and the dangerous areas of Chicago clean up even a tiny bit, the inner cities will start to listen.
If the GOP wasn’t so frigging stupid, they’d be taking full advantage of these basic facts and would be working hard to permanently fracture that party. Instead, they’re lining up in front of cameras to outdo one another trashing the President while the Dems recuperate.
Fortunately, Trump knows how to play hardball. If any other GOP candidate somehow won the Presidency, they’d let the Dems make a comeback within a year. Trump seems to be making it difficult for the Democrats.
I’d never sit here and say the Democrats are dead ... the political mood of the country will swing back and forth one way and another for as long as it exists. However, I think the “1960s Left” took a fatal blow ... it’s up to the GOP and/or the President to see to it that the Democrats don’t get the political medical attention they need to somehow survive that blow.
We’ll certainly get a better feel for who’s right and wrong next year :-).
You’re exactly right, the only thing that can save the Democrats right now are the Washington Generals aka GOPe, but thankfully Trump understands that and will do his best to thwart them.
You nailed it. The Dems are so far left now that even blacks can’t fully identify. Even on gay marriage, blacks are MORE CONSERVATIVE than whites, which was why it got (temporarily) defeated in California. Same for letting men chase little girls into the bathroom - blacks made sure that Houston got rid of that sick law. And we can definitely make a play on abortion, given the huge numbers of black babies aborted (relative to white percentages...something like 4 to 1)...we do have opportunities, if we have enough BRAINS to use them.
And that’s just on the social side...economically, the opportunities are endless - get the real working class jobs going, and then TELL THE COUNTRY you’re doing just that. We don’t have to win 51% of the black vote...just winning 30% cuts the Democrat advantage (they now have) IN HALF - and makes it next to impossible for the Dems to be much more than a fringe party. It also plays well with white independents...they don’t like seeing the Republicans simply write off the black community, so there’s some gain there too.