Posted on 02/22/2022 2:41:03 PM PST by cotton1706
With Biden’s approval rating averaging at around 41.3%, many incumbent Democrats retiring, Republicans having an average +3.8 in the generic ballot, and historical trends of the incumbent President’s party losing in the midterms, many pundits and voters agree that a Republican wave is imminent.
Still, Republicans are looking for ways to expand and satisfy their base to ensure future victories. With that comes the question as to what the future of the Republican Party is. Do we revert to the establishment and cronyistic ways of Bush, Romney, and McCain or do we move further with Trumpian populism? Recent polling may suggest the latter.
Before the age of Trump, and even the Tea Party, the standard Republican establishment playbook was simple–vaguely advocate for lowering taxes and maintain a milquetoast, wishy-washy disposition when it comes to social and cultural issues. This disposition is especially true on the issue of immigration.
As it turns out, the establishment opinion that the only way to win Hispanics is to favor amnesty seems to be an out-of-tune position. Recent polling by the NRCC states that Hispanics support many of the semi-populist positions of the Republican party. Hispanics agree that Republicans can do a better job than Democrats on issues like securing the border, dealing with crime, dealing with inflation and a higher cost of living, and dealing with the economy and jobs.
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“Have to win muh general election.”
But is the GOP serious? Or are they just throwing red meat to us in hopes we’ll start donating money to them again?
“With Biden’s approval rating averaging at around 41.3%...”
YOU LIE!
Glad to see so many ‘Rats retiring! Sadly, their useless butts are still living on our dime...plus all they’ve been able to GRAFT through the years. Grrr!
The second one.
It’s called growing a pair.
There is a long tradition of populism in Latin America. The Democrats simply do not represent them. Name a cultural issue and as a whole they overwhelmingly agree with the Republicans. Add policies that are good for the working and middle class like securing the border, fracking as much as possible, slapping tariffs on China, slashing Gaia worshipping regulations that kill jobs and you’ve got a formula that could see a massive realignment of this key demographic to being majority Republican.
None of that happens if Establishment RINOs are not pushed out.
Don’t let them fool you, most of the current Reps and Senators are Bush League Republicans hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
It’s called fooling the rubes.
Amnesty Senators Rubio and Hoeven have not changed their minds about giving the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
I saw where it’s a lot higher than 3%
Federal politicians need to focus on foreign issues like borders, inflation, Federal Goverment corruptions, and not losing wars.
State politicians need to focse on education reform, and pushing Washington D.C. out of the domestic sphere by withdrawing cooperation and support for Federal LEOs.
Ultimately we will not get anything of consequence from Washington D.C we know this from 100+ years of trying. If you expect Washington D.C. to give up power voluntarily your dreaming.
We may demand the do this but realistically they are power hungry politicians who will sabotage any such effort therefore the solution is to make it as impractical, expensive, and general unfavorable as possible for them to govern domestically as possible.
Once that is done they will be willing to give up power they don’t realistically have anyway. This can be done by our states and our people by nullification & non-cooperation agreements.
We need only a sizeable minority of both to agree not to help the Feds and never to vote to convict anyone so charged by them on a jury.
Theses are the tools by which Americans practically force Washington D.C. out of the domestic sphere in every area but spending.
Which to be frank Washington D.C. recklessness is aiding a shift to alternatives anyway.
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