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Originally Posted by Illuminaughty
Such as? What are my bizarre hatreds and weird obsessions? You don't ACTUALLY know anything about me.
I think the tide is turning, the political left is so completely out of control at the moment that people are finally sick of it. It might not be this election, but I can't see Shillary being re-elected if she manages to squeak in, being gifted running against a reality tv star rogue billionaire..... you really can't even write this stuff.
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Literally the exact opposite of this is happening. David Brooks (conservative, by the way, so he should be on the GOP side of things) was on NPR this evening on my drive home, talking about how Trump is exposing the mess that is the GOP. This is not a problem that will easily solve itself. The GOP needs to cater to the Trump voters (anti-immigration, anti-trade, protectionist) in order to keep that non-college educated, working class white base, but that base, as a percentage of the population, is shrinking. If Trump pushes women out of that already limited base, the GOP doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. Evangelicals under the age of 60 are abandoning Trump, and many evangelical women are questioning the rest of the GOP that is still supporting him. If they lose young evangelicals and women, they drop their base down to a very loyal, but very, very small percentage of the population.
Democrats aren't perfect, but the GOP has pigeon-holed itself into a corner that ignores already decided rights for others (Roe v Wade, marriage equality, the civil rights movement), ignores science (climate change, insisting that conversion therapy works to de-gay-ify people), and ignores that Trickle Down economic policy has been a monumental failure. The US is getting more socially liberal, more ethnic, is over 50% female. Democrats aren't the party ignoring those facts.