Trump’s Nationalism Is Breaking Point for Some Suburban Voters, Risking G.O.P. Coalition

The New York Slimes ^ | 01 NOV 2018 | Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns

[E. Pluribus Unum]

HOUSTON — J. Mark Metts, a 60-year-old partner at one of this city’s prestigious law firms, had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until 2016. Now he and some of his neighbors in the moneyed River Oaks enclave of Houston are about to oppose a Republican once again, to register their disapproval of President Trump.

“With Congress not really standing up to Trump, this election is becoming a referendum,” Mr. Metts said, explaining why he would no longer support the re-election of Representative John Culberson, an eight-term Republican.

Mr. Culberson is now running roughly even with the Democratic candidate, Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll last week — an extraordinary development in a district that has not elected a Democrat since before an oilman named George H.W. Bush won here in 1966, and one that illustrates how difficult Mr. Trump has made it for his party to retain control of the House.

If the 2016 election hinged in large part on a rightward shift among working-class whites who deserted Democrats in the presidential race, Tuesday’s House election may turn on an equally significant and opposite force: a generational break with Republicanism among educated, wealthier whites — especially women — who generally like the party’s pro-business policies but recoil from strident, divisive language on race and gender.

[BrandtMichaels]

Any NPC could write this drivel.

[gathersnomoss]

South Hampton estate owners just happen to be building high dollar “safe rooms”. They are not fans of MS-13. But....they are still leftist’s. Go figure....

[CIB-173RDABN]

How do we know that J. Mark Metts really exist?

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahaha...someone on FR commented the other day on the “dangerous package” delivered to the New York Times, and opined that “Yeah. It was contained deadly poison to them...the truth!”

These people on the Left have no idea what they are talking about. Every day, it sounds more like whistling past the graveyard.

[papertyger]

Now he and some of his neighbors in the moneyed River Oaks enclave of Houston are about to oppose a Republican once again, to register their disapproval of President Trump.

OMG! Can the Times truly be this clueless?

[Boogieman]

“an extraordinary development in a district that has not elected a Democrat since before an oilman named George H.W. Bush won here in 1966”

So basically, the MSM has to go all the way to the darkest heart of Bushite territory in order to find one house race where the Never Trumpers might actually have a chance to throw it to the Dems...

[Boogieman]

Well, NYC did give us Trump.

[Boogieman]

More likely they are worried about their Honduran housekeepers and gardeners getting deported.

[Mears]

The wealthy ALWAYS hide from the troubles that they inflict on the rest of us-—they just don’t care.

(By the way,The Hamptons are delightful.)

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[Ozymandias Ghost]

“he and some of his neighbors in the moneyed River Oaks enclave of Houston”
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“Dog Whistle” for “Gated Community Virtue Signalers” (Two can play this trope game)

[papertyger]

Always comedy gold when Manhattanites tell 98% of the US what they think, do, say and how they vote.

Speaking of...have you read Kurt Schlichter's new book, "Militant Normals?"

Highly recommend.

[dead]

He voted for Hillary. Who cares what he thinks?

[datricker]

Have you had the pizza?

[paterfamilias]

Suburban New Yorker here: I will vote straight Conservative on Tuesday.

[italianquaker]

So true, I have a family member who swears their pro life but voted for Bernie and Hillary.
Vote for who you want but pro life you cannot be voting for those 2

[dead]

He's a winner:

Previously, Mr. Metts advised on the sale by Enron Corp. of its wind company’s turbine manufacturing business to GE Power Systems, and the takeover by Vitro S.A. of Anchor Glass Company (the first hostile takeover of a U.S. company by a Mexican company).

I miss him already.

[dead]

I just took an online AP poll after I was selected. I answered all the questions honestly, except the demographic stuff. I told them I am a mixed race, muslim, 25 year old woman, who makes less than $30,000 a year.

They offered to give me $5 for my time, but I don't want a check from them. Besides, at less than $30K a year, I'm on easy street.

[Ohioan]

What Drives The Trump Haters

No one should ever act ashamed to associate with those of us, who desire to continue the principles & traditions that were achieved by the generations of Americans, who aspired & achieved by following the Founders' vision. There is no place--no honorable place--for those who would apologize for or abandon the heritage that made us the envy of the world. The writer describes intellectually dysfunctional ingrates!

William Flax

[amnestynone]

Unfortunately some of these upscale GOP phonies are just interested in money and are more than willing to turn this country into a third world s__t hole just to get cheap labor. They are so greedy that they don't see how turning this country into a Democrat majority country is going to effect them. This is why I am against all tax cuts for the rich until they change their attitude. Also no tax cuts for corporations as long as the corporate media continually promotes socialism.

[Leep]

They down think so much as spew.