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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
I'm not sure it is even valid to say Republican candidates are really running on economic issues. Take the ACA for example, they are running on 'Repeal and Replace' (nice little buzz word), but as of yet, there has been no substantive alternative proposed by the Republican Party.
As of right now they dogmatic in their belief of cutting taxes and really not much else. That's about the only thing they can uniformly say on economic issues.
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Of course they aren't running on economics.
It's intentionally misleading. Republican power in the last 40-50 years has revolved almost exclusively around bigotry in one form or another. That's a bold statement that is likely to bother some posters on here whether they self-identify as republican or not, but all their major historical platforms, even now, revolve almost exclusively around social policies to limit the rights and liberty of minority groups. Black, gay, Mexican, irreligious, women. Many of the power brokers creating policy in that regard may or may not believe these things, but that is the framework the party is built on.
It is the uncomfortable truth of American politics, and it's been this way for a long, long time. The 'economics' aspect of the party is pure bull####.