Midterms show Dems the party of the elite, not the middle class

The Hill ^ | November 18, 2018 | Jeremy Carl

[C19fan]

In 2004, liberal journalist and political scientist Thomas Frank caused a stir with his book, "What’s the Matter with Kansas," a broadside against the natives of his home state and their lurch to the right that Frank perceived to be against their economic interests.

In the wake of the 2018 midterms, it should be the Republicans asking, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?,” after Kris Kobach lost the governorship to Democrat Laura Kelly in a state in which registered Republicans outnumber Democrats almost 2-1.

[C19fan]

The Democrats have become what Benjamin D'Isreali envisioned the Tory party would transform into in Victorian Britain; an elite led party where the working classes would provide the electoral muscle to defeat the middle class Liberal party.

[shoedog]

His data is very interesting. One other dynamic in Johnson County was the backlash from Brownbacks tax cut that took a large chunk of money away from schools and caused a big deficit. Also a very bitter Republican primary for Kobach.

[Hieronymus]

The elites of either party tend to be for the elites. As Reagan said, the reason why there are none of our people in Washington is once they get to Washington they cease to be our people.

A government professor I had at Cornell made the point that the one thing all elected politicians stand for is re-election.

Power tends to corrupt. The tree of liberty seems to need watering.

[PGR88]

Democrats have steeped in Neo-marxism and critical theory for so long, their main planks are merely: increasing government power, white hate, and creating new classes of victims.

Any connection or views they once had on jobs, wages, constitutional rights or national defense are completely gone.

[SMGFan]

Punish a GOP Gov candidate. Good luck with a Dem Gov. Wasn’t Sebelius a horror?

[Dan in Wichita]

Because the RINOs in Kansas would rather vote for a Democrat than a conservative Republican. That’s how we got saddled with an ultra lib as governor here in Kansas, despite R’s outnumbering D’s 2 to 1.

[gibsonguy]

Kansas is a curious place. They elected and re-elected Sebelius, one of most vile women in the country as thier Governor. She bend over backwards to defend tiller the baby killer. Just a horrible woman.

[Deplorable American1776]

Does Kansas Republicans control the state Senate and House?

[PIF]

Any connection or views they once had on jobs, wages, constitutional rights or national defense are completely gone

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Gone since the late 1970s - just no one noticed until they hit critical mass recently ...

[Boomer]

Dems are just low info mental defectives. It’s not really complicated.

[centurion316]

Silent in this article is the fact that much of the Democrat vote in Johnson County was the Republican female vote. Johnson County is the tony suburb of Kansas City and has always been moderate and a swing county, waxing and waning between Republican and Democrat candidates over the years. This year, they planted themselves firmly in the Democrat column, throwing out the very model of a modern Republican moderate, Kevin Yoder and replacing him with a flaming Communist. The enablers of this political shift were the affluent female voters of suburban Johnson County. Moreover, that is probably a permanent shift and these voters now join the rest of the elite.

Many of these women are the descendants of the original Republicans, the Free Staters of liberal New England. Their families have remained Republican over the generations, but they have also been liberal at their core sentiment. Don’t count on their votes going forward, they will be full Democrat and will vote for the Democrat candidate in 2020.

This phenomenon will not be limited to Kansas. This article points out that affluent suburbs turned Blue this year and by the same people. Suburban Republican women. This observation was poo poo’d time and time again on this forum, but it happened this year and will happen again in 2020. They are gone. In early voter states, their votes were counted for the GOP in the early predictions because they were registered Republicans, they voted for the Dems. They will likely change their registrations to Dem.

Our counter move, and our opportunity is to complete what Trump started in 2016 and bring in the blue collar voters across the country. The time is ripe and they are ready to abandon the looney left and their identity politics. Let the Democrats have the sanctimonious elitist crowd, even with voter fraud, their aren’t enough of them to win.