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

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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.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Stopped reading when I saw “New York Slimes.”

[bgill]

The morons don’t understand the difference between a Nationalist and white nationalism.

[montag813]

Culberson's opponent, a Hillary clone

[cincinnati65]

Where do they find these buffoons?

[Captain Compassion]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[dljordan]

“Have you had the pizza?”

Yes.

[dljordan]

“Well, NYC did give us Trump.”

I’ll give you that. Otherwise it’s a seething cauldron of anti- Americanism and hatred. The incubator of Marxism and more than half full of foreigners, perverts, criminals and other undesirables.

[Pajamajan]

"Yeah we sure don't want any presidents supporting the United States of America"

You forgot the (/s).

BUMP

[Raycpa]

A never Trumper is not voting for Trump supporters?

[Montana_Sam]

The continual stream of nonsense the Democrat media puts out seems meant only to insult our intelligence. The sad thing is that a lot of good trees lay down their lives daily for the Times and other ungrateful media outlets.

Barbaric waste of good wood.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ha!

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[SuperLuminal]

If a GOPer is not an American, then good riddance to the stinking communist sympathizer...

[Captain Compassion]