When properly positioned these issues will drive those “white, educated, suburban women” the the Republican side in droves and there wouldn’t be a damned thing the Democrat Party could do to stop it besides scream “Orange Man Bad!” I agree with everything you said in your reply but here's the rub, I am a white, educated, suburban male.
I don't think I speak the same language as these suburban females. When the Democrat candidate screams, "Orange Man bad" it gets traction with these females. Throw in racism, throw in a few heartbreaking stories and the delicate balance in those few battleground states can be tipped. I will be standing in the aftermath of the election scratching my head and wondering how in hell could these women vote this way?
I understand the temptation to exaggerate this Mars versus Venus dichotomy but the gap in all the data is glaring and it does not break in our favor. Nor did it break in our favor in 2018. How do we win an election by arguing that Sen. Warren's version of populism is a crack pot admixture of socialism and fascism? All the male voters are nodding their heads in agreement while the females have turned us out while they respond to politics as soap opera!
“I agree with everything you said in your reply but here’s the rub, I am a white, educated, suburban male. I don’t think I speak the same language as these suburban females.”
I’m not sure I qualify as “educated”. High school and an Associates. The rest is 40 plus years of Hard Knocks U, summa cum laude or whatever. But even I’m smart enough to believe that a 45 second campaign ad breaking down the kitchen table economic issues would be very effective.
So would 45 seconds of video showing 2,000 people a DAY streaming across a basically wide open southern border. Soccer moms don’t want their precious little snowflakes being deprived of what passes for an education these days any more than you or I do.
Five or six 30 second spots showing the devastation MS-13 is doing to small town America would herd them into our camp and I mean right now.
“At 15 years old Mary Smith had her whole life ahead of her until she was brutally murdered by a gang member who was released into your community by the Democrat Party. Is that what you want for your children? It’s what Candidate Democrat Whack Job wants. Vote Republican.”
“Right here in Name the State X number of people have died from Fentanyl overdoses in just the last 2 years. Nearly all of that poison came in through the border with Mexico. Candidate Democrat Whack Job wants to abolish ICE and keep the border open so your kids can be exposed. Is that what YOU want? Vote Republican to keep your family safe.”
Game over.
Oh the press and the Dems (same thing I know) will howl. Let them. I’ll quote your tagline: “Attack. Repeat attack”. The only open question is whether or not the Republican Party has the stomach to do it.
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