Trump is driving young Republicans away from the GOP

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BY KATIE GLUECK


When President Donald Trump refused to explicitly blame white supremacists for violence in Charlottesville, Republican Emmanuel Wilder couldn’t help but take it personally.

“I try not to let my feelings get ahead of the facts, but in this circumstance, it hurts,” the 30-year-old Wilder, a North Carolina-based African American involved in GOP outreach efforts, told McClatchy at the time.

Five months later, it’s Trump’s Republican Party that is hurting – with young voters, and significantly, with young Republicans like Wilder, who may like Trump’s tax plan but are deeply bothered by his routinely divisive tone.

As the Trump presidency hits the one-year mark, the Republican Party confronts a yawning generational gap that has been exacerbated in recent months by Trump’s incendiary comments on race-related issues and the party’s official support for an accused child molester in Alabama’s Senate race.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article195129494.html

[bearsfootball516]

1. November can't come fast enough

It's going to get ugly, ugly, ugly for the GOP. Anyone who denies that is lying to themselves.

[Ohiogal]

2. I can't wait for the big blue wave coming up this year!

[C_U_L8R]

3. You certainly won't meet many goirls

There's nothing quite as unsexy as a Republican...
....and then there's all that women-hating legislation

[vi5]

4. I'm old enough to remember reading some variant of this many times.

When I was a teen in the 80's, Reagan was driving youth away from the GOP because he was out of touch and inattentive to their issues. It was a death knell!!!

Then in the 90's with all the moral scolding of the Pat Buchanan/Robertson rise within the party. It was a death Knell!!!

Then when Bush was sending young kids off to war and the fears of a draft were coming back. Another death knell!!!!!

Then with Obama's young, hip approach to Democratic party politics......the GOP is doomed with young people!!!

Yet here we are in 2018. I don't think I need to remind everyone what's going on.

[George II]

5. Just watch the CNN and MSNBC panel shows - even most republican guests are anti-trump.