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The American Political Realignment is Real
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 5, 2025 | William A. Galston

Posted on 06/05/2025 4:43:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble

"Trump has built a diverse working-class coalition. Can he pass it on to his successor?"

The Democrats’ defeat in 2024 reflected long-term shifts in the electorate, not merely Kamala Harris’s vulnerability or Joe Biden’s decision to seek re-election. If these trends persist through the 2028 presidential election, the long-predicted realignment of America’s political parties will be completed.

The New York Times reported on May 24 that the Republican Party had increased its vote share in three consecutive presidential elections in 1,433 counties, nearly half the national total. The Democratic Party had increased its share in all three elections in only 57 counties. Some 42.7 million voting-age Americans live in counties with consecutive Republican gains, compared with only 8.1 million in counties with consecutive Democratic gains...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; blue; red
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It has been my opinion, originally posted here on Inauguration Day 2017, that the Republican Party is too corrupt and too tied to obsolete ideas to save the nation - and that a new container for Trumpismo is going to have to be created well before the midterms. Of course, my original post specified the 2018 midterms, which were, as I predicted, a disaster.

MAGA needs a 30-40 seat House majority and 60 Senators to change the country. The GOP is not capable of providing those majorities, as once again the President is in office because of winning 2X Obama 2X Trump districts that no other official with a GOP label can ever win.

Anything that threatens the GOP's progressive globalist dream, which comes down to a global free market in labor, thay will undermine - as they are doing right now. Important top officials in Trump 2.0 are long-term Democrats.

Both "major parties" are at war with themselves. It's time to strike while the iron is hot. "Battons le fer quand il est chaud!"

1 posted on 06/05/2025 4:43:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

>> Both “major parties” are at war with themselves. It’s time to strike while the iron is hot.

Stop talking in code. What exactly does “striking while the iron is hot” mean in this context?


2 posted on 06/05/2025 4:52:46 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Jim Noble

I don’t think Vance will fool them. Not sure they’re ready to go for a GOP gal. Who’s a strong, Working Joe conservative?


3 posted on 06/05/2025 4:55:42 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Noble

And no, Marco’s not it. At least for 2028.


4 posted on 06/05/2025 4:56:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Noble

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5 posted on 06/05/2025 4:56:26 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: 9YearLurker

Most working Joe conservatives hate only one thing more than Democrats - unfortunately, that’s Republicans.


6 posted on 06/05/2025 4:57:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Nervous Tick
What exactly does “striking while the iron is hot” mean in this context?

My advice to Trump on 1/20/17 was that he had six months to denounce the GOP and announce a campaign to find, fund, and run 435 patriots in every House district in 2018.

This could still be done, only this time with a steering committee of Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, RFK jr, Steven Miller, and a guy like Michael Anton, none of whom were available in 2017.

There is zero chance of an American restoration as long as the GOP exists.

7 posted on 06/05/2025 5:02:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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You mean yet another 3rd party?


8 posted on 06/05/2025 5:04:01 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Jim Noble

That is poor, even miserable advice.

Trump is the Republican party. The few ultra conservative hold outs have little chance to pass their extreme bills

Politics is the art of the possible and pretending to be relevant


9 posted on 06/05/2025 5:05:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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It’s not that the Republicans have won, but the Democrats have failed. Actually, they just lost their minds. Americans aren’t ready to disbelieve their own eyes.


10 posted on 06/05/2025 5:06:37 AM PDT by Spok (Lies and stupidity require an explanation; the truth doesn’t.)
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That’s because Democrats come right out and tell you what they are going to do. Republicans tell you what they are going to do to get elected then turn around and stab you in the back.


11 posted on 06/05/2025 5:08:23 AM PDT by sheana
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To: 9YearLurker

Vance is the heir apparent, and he is getting on the job training.


12 posted on 06/05/2025 5:10:24 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Jim Noble

Jim, you predicted utter disaster for the Republicans in 2024. Do I need to repost some of your failed predictions?


13 posted on 06/05/2025 5:11:34 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: cowboyusa

He’s a Yalie who was groomed and placed there by Bilderberg board member/globalist Peter Thiel. Despite his book and family story, he hasn’t resonated with the working class.


14 posted on 06/05/2025 5:14:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Noble

Only if we retain the House.


15 posted on 06/05/2025 5:29:09 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Jim Noble; RitaOK; AFB-XYZ

Looking outside the box, all political “parties” are dead; Trump has trumped them.
Politics, as we have been hoodwinked into accepting, is dead.
He hangs on to the Republican label to fend-off conservative chaos.
For the moment, it is all about governing the USA.
After the mid-terms, the demolition will be complete...provided conservatism and common sense win.
Then can Trump and his hand-picked conservative cadre begin to rebuild a semblance of a party.
And a common sense member of the cadre (Vance, IMO) should begin the tremors of change during the midterm campaigns
But even then, any party that forms which cares only about itself will be crushed.

A ‘Great America’ party?
We the People


16 posted on 06/05/2025 5:32:28 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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To: 9YearLurker

I disagree. All ther working class in my family like Vance and see him as the heir apparent.


17 posted on 06/05/2025 6:03:32 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Valpal1

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/jd-vance-most-disliked-vp-in-us-history-new-poll-out-101742654829920.html


18 posted on 06/05/2025 6:08:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Noble

It’s easier to take over the existing RINO party than to create a separate new one.


19 posted on 06/05/2025 6:12:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Indeed, we’re almost done.


20 posted on 06/05/2025 6:12:23 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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