What’s he saying that you object to? Do you want to write off the Hispanics, blacks, and women forever? If that’s the case, then we can just fold our tents and go home because we will never win another election.
This does not mean compromising or changing our principles. It means explaining them instead of ignoring these groups. It means doing what Paul Ryan wanted to do: going into these communities and telling people there why conservatism is good for them.
You may not get many votes from the blacks at first, but as people get more prosperous they start voting more conservative. I do know black professionals who have become much more conservative and voted a straight Republican ticket.
>>This does not mean compromising or changing our principles. It means explaining them instead of ignoring these groups. It means doing what Paul Ryan wanted to do: going into these communities and telling people there why conservatism is good for them.
Actually, it does mean compromising or changing our principles. You can’t explain anything like the value of hard work to people who greet you with “show me da money”. You can’t fight the media in nation where the unemployed can afford cable TV.
How can you win over people who vote for skin color and free stuff? How can you make conservatism work under a system where labor is taxed to pay entitlements to the non-working? How can you be pro-life while encouraging abortion? Why do we have to struggle to promote blacks and hispanics as candidates just to prove how “big tent” we are?
Freedom to live as you see fit should be our Big Tent. But most Americans do not want to live free. They just want free stuff and they want someone else to work for it. That’s the hard fact of life in the 21st century USA.
The Dems won, so all we’re left with is “Burn Baby, Burn!”