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That is a very diverse map with many diverse demographics. Democrats dominate a small number of heavily populated pockets. Where group think rains supreme.
By Stuart Stevens
Mr. Stevens is a Republican political consultant.
After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential race, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, commissioned an internal party study to examine why the party had won the popular vote only once since 1988.
The results of that so-called autopsy were fairly obvious: The party needed to appeal to more people of color, reach out to younger voters, become more welcoming to women. Those conclusions were presented as not only a political necessity but also a moral mandate if the Republican Party were to be a governing party in a rapidly changing America.
Then Donald Trump emerged and the party threw all those conclusions out the window with an almost audible sigh of relief: Thank God we can win without pretending we really care about this stuff. That reaction was sadly predictable.
I spent decades working to elect Republicans, including Mr. Romney and four other presidential candidates, and I am here to bear reluctant witness that Mr. Trump didn’t hijack the Republican Party. He is the logical conclusion of what the party became over the past 50 or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race-baiting, self-deception and anger that now dominate it. Hold Donald Trump up to a mirror and that bulging, scowling orange face is today’s Republican Party.
I saw the warning signs but ignored them and chose to believe what I wanted to believe: The party wasn’t just a white grievance party; there was still a big tent; the others guys were worse. Many of us in the party saw this dark side and told ourselves it was a recessive gene. We were wrong. It turned out to be the dominant gene.
What is most telling is that the Republican Party actively embraced, supported, defended and now enthusiastically identifies with a man who eagerly exploits the nation’s racial tensions. In our system, political parties should serve a circuit breaker function. The Republican Party never pulled the switch.
Racism is the original sin of the modern Republican Party. While many Republicans today like to mourn the absence of an intellectual voice like William Buckley, it is often overlooked that Mr. Buckley began his career as a racist defending segregation.
In the Richard Nixon White House, Pat Buchanan and Kevin Phillips wrote a re-election campaign memo headed “Dividing the Democrats” in which they outlined what would come to be known as the Southern Strategy. It assumes there is little Republicans can do to attract Black Americans and details a two-pronged strategy: Utilize Black support of Democrats to alienate white voters while trying to decrease that support by sowing dissension within the Democratic Party.
That strategy has worked so well that it was copied by the Russians in their 2016 efforts to help elect Mr. Trump.
In the 2000 George W. Bush campaign, on which I worked, we acknowledged the failures of Republicans to attract significant nonwhite support. When Mr. Bush called himself a “compassionate conservative,” some on the right attacked him, calling it an admission that conservatism had not been compassionate. That was true; it had not been. Many of us believed we could steer the party to that “kinder, gentler” place his father described. We were wrong.
Reading Mr. Bush’s 2000 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention now is like stumbling across a do ent from a lost civilization, with its calls for humility, service and compassion. That message couldn’t attract 20 percent in a Republican presidential primary today. If there really was a battle for the soul of the Republican Party, we lost.
There is a collective blame to be shared by those of us who have created the modern Republican Party that has so egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent. My j’accuse is against us all, not a few individuals who were the most egre
How did this happen? How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy and the national debt in a matter of months? You don’t. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren’t deeply held. What others and I thought were bedrock values turned out to be mere marketing slogans easily replaced. I feel like the guy working for Bernie Madoff who thought they were actually beating the market.
Mr. Trump has served a useful purpose by exposing the deep flaws of a major American political party. Like a heavy truck driven over a bridge on the edge of failure, he has made it impossible to ignore the long-developing fault lines of the Republican Party. A party rooted in decency and values does not embrace the anger that Mr. Trump peddles as patriotism.
This collapse of a major political party as a moral governing force is unlike anything we have seen in modern American politics. The closest parallel is the demise of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, when the dissonance between what the party said it stood for and what citizens actually experienced was so great that it was unsustainable.
This election should signal a day of reckoning for the party and all who claim it as a political iden y. Will it? I’ve given up hope that there are any lines of decency or normalcy that once crossed would move Republican leaders to act as if they took their oath of office more seriously than their allegiance to party. Only fear will motivate the party to change — the cold fear only defeat can bring.
That defeat is looming. Will it bring desperately needed change to the Republican Party? I’d like to say I’m hopeful. But that would be a lie and there have been too many lies for too long.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/o...ty-racism.html
That is a very diverse map with many diverse demographics. Democrats dominate a small number of heavily populated pockets. Where group think rains supreme.
Republicans are racist. It's the only card boobs like RandomCuck ever have to play.
Take an umbrella
That is a very diverse map with many diverse demographics. Democrats dominate a small number of heavily populated pockets. Where group think rains supreme.
Racism card only has an effect on blacks and liberal whites. Every other demographic understands that is part of the experience living in a multicultural society.
why are 100 people who live within a 1 block radius less valuable than 100 people who live within a 2 mile radius?
Yah realized it as I went back to work from break. Oops.
Congressional delegation sizes need to be updated for sure on the House side.
Typically the closer proximity the more similiaries they share so easier to campaign
and yet each of them is an individual and citizen and they still cast their own votes
i've never seen a large plot of land go vote, i see people go vote
You’re arguing about numbers with someone who literally thinks 1/1,000,000 can be rounded up to 1/10
My post actually wasn't referencing land size I.E "Look at how red that map is".
More so the ability to get people from Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Florida and Utah on the same page is quite diverse.
100 homeless people downtown Austin aren't worth a plug nickel. 100 SI swimsuit models, just the opposite, I'd plug their copper nickels.
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Are you arguing that city people are more genous than ing farmers?
The Republican Party sure seems ripe for a split. Conservative versus Trumpistas. Whether it happens depends on who is left after Trump is defeated in Nov.
...but it's not gonna be because of racism, it's gonna be because TX will turn blue by 2028 after Biden (or his VP) have served 2 terms
Every Republican is united against liberals
Democrats are against religion, government, capitalism, whites, elderly,, and history/heritage
That is ripe for a split
Last edited by FrostKing; 08-01-2020 at 12:22 AM.
Same bull
There will never not be a Republican and Democratic party in our lifetimes. As soon as one of those parties is faced with a long-term loss of power they will pivot or compromise previously held platforms to keep as close to an even split as possible. It exactly how the oligarchy wants it.
the ed up Senate?
the extremely low pop, adjacent states should have 2 Senators, not 8
( WY + ND + SD+ MT ) = 2 Senators for only 3.2M population, vs 2 Senators for CA's 40M
Minority rule was not the "original intent" of the FFs.
ID and NE could go into that group, too
Why would minorities rule? What is the logic. Aren't you a 99%er?
Did you read about the new shorter Census deadline? Was reading about it yesterday, sounds fishy as ...
Eh, dunno about "original intent." Indirect elections reliably lead to minority rule, if the founders wanted to prevent that, they could easily have provided for direct Presidential elections.
The Electoral College is the epitome of stogy republican elitism; its raison d'etre is to make minority rule possible.
A changed deadline?
I had not, thanks!
https://triblive.com/local/regional/...nt-collection/In an unprecedented move, leaders with the Census Bureau are cutting short in-person counting efforts for the 2020 census, efforts that largely impact hard-to-count populations.
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