Posted on 09/30/2021 8:19:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bashing America, cops and free-market capitalism comes with blowback too, Newt Gingrich-inspired survey shows.
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Newt Gingrich, who crafted the Contract with America that upset Washington's political status quo a quarter century ago, has quietly been conducting one of the most extensive polling operations ever of swing voters ahead of the 2022 election. His takeaway: Democrats' big government, race-focused and America-disparaging agenda could bust the fragile coalition that put Joe Biden in power last November.
His polling, shared with Just the News, shows Americans overwhelmingly think the United States is the greatest county in history, prefer free-market capitalism to big government socialism, reject the premise of critical race theory that skin color is a predeterminant to success, and oppose defunding the police.
In other words, Democrats have overreached with an agenda that this week alone will put $4.5 trillion in government expansion on the table in Congress with a series of critical Biden agenda votes.
"With Biden's election, the left went crazy," Gingrich explained in a recent interview on John Solomon Reports podcast. "They totally misunderstood what had happened [in 2020], and they decided this was their moment to go out and be who they really are, which for most Americans is pretty horrifying, frankly. And the result was they took a series of steps that I think are unsustainable."
The former House Speaker is now taking the survey data, assembled by Donald Trump pollster John McLaughlin in August, to begin training Republicans prepping for the 2022 election on what language to use with voters. His top advice: Relentlessly draw a distinction between the "free-market capitalism" touted by conservatives and the "big government socialism" inherent in the Biden plan.
"You need all six words," he cautioned. "If it's capitalism versus socialism, capitalism wins, but not by a decisive margin. But if it's free market capitalism versus big government socialism, it's a 59% to 16% issue. And that changes everything."
Gingrich's extensive polling focused on swing voters, those who don't reliably vote just Democrat or Republican but have an independent streak to them. You can read his entire findings here:
File National Swing Voters G360 PPT 08-24-21 Executive UPDATED 08-30-21.pdf
In that voter world, all the current talking down and disparagement of America on the left comes with a huge political price, he said. That's because 84% of swing voters believe that "the United States of America is the greatest country on earth," and they prefer free-market capitalism to big government socialism by an 82% to 18% margin.
Similarly, 69% of swing voters agreed that "the big government socialists are taking over from the traditional moderate Democrats and now define the Democratic Party," compared to just 31% percent who disagreed.
Getting rid of cops or defunding police as part of the social justice movement? That didn't fare well either: 68% of swing voters declared police need more funding and training, while only 31% believed funding should be redirected from police to social services. Similarly, 69% said they believed the recent spike in violent crime was caused by the "undermining of law and order and disrespect of our police officers."
The survey also showed strong opposition to the underpinnings of the critical race theory that many Democrats and their teacher union allies want taught in schools. That doctrine teaches that America is an inherently racist society in which whites are oppressors and minoritires are the oppressed.
But 80% of swing voters said they wanted schools to "teach young people to treat people the same no matter their skin color," while only 20% thought young people should be taught "to consider people's racial experience in how they treat people."
Gingrich said the message in the swing voter polls needs to be "driven home until it becomes the brand of the New Democratic Party, which is a Bernie Sanders, big government socialist party."
Many Democrats dismiss such concerns, insisting their agenda remains popular, especially among young people. The Atlantic magazine, a bellwether of the new left, declared this past weekend the progressive movement has already won by shifting the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
"In the battle for ideological supremacy in the Democratic Party, the progressives have already won," wrote the magazine's Russell Berman. "Biden was indeed a proud moderate during his three and a half decades as a senator, but he has fallen in firmly with the progressives as president. He's embraced the agenda championed by the likes of his former rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren."
“2022 will be a b!tch for Dems....................”
I hope you’re right. I have little faith in the American public.
Yep.
They’re going have to print lots of extra ballots and make sure they go to the right locations. Cheating on national elections is a lot easier than cheating on district elections.
Unless they use Dominion Voting Machines in EVERY RACE......................
What is going to kill the Biden Democrats is out of control inflation
History shows the average US voter is totally oblivious to what is going on in DC, until it comes to their checkbook. Working harder and harder for a paycheck that buys less and less is one of the few thing that will shock them out of their follow the herd voting patterns
That was true of Baby-Boomers, but now the Millennials are coming into power......................
This isn’t just a generational thing. Revolutions and revolts thought history have been triggered by this problem
Bernie Sanders calls Senator Manchin “Mr” Manchin. In public.
Swing voters no longer exist. Their votes are nullified with extensive fraud
Well, that's more than me. I have *no* faith in the American public.
2022? Then what? All the R’s will do is delay things as we get back to “normal” life until the next round of D takeovers for good-—that’s even if we get there.
I believe the Marxists are all in 100% and it’s already done. We have crossed the imaginary line and there’s only one way back-—and it’s not peaceful....sadly.
There are now more people riding the wagon than pulling the wagon.
American public not much of that left any more it’s the democrats best plan of them.
They did just fine in 2018.
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