GOP’s “happy loser” syndrome: Why the right may not want the White House

[DonViejo]

Conventional wisdom says Republicans need to evolve and get younger. But that overlooks their true agenda

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Politico has tackled the GOP’s “extremist problem” and they’ve decided that the party is in real trouble – or, as they call it, ”losing by winning.” They point out the obvious fact that the Republicans can win elections in off-years by stoking their base but will have difficulty cobbling together a national majority to win the presidency two years later.

“The Republican Party has essentially now two wings: a congressional wing and the national wing,” the veteran GOP pollster Bill McInturff said at a recent Pew Research Center forum on so-called millennial voters, those from 18 to 29 years of age. The congressional wing is thriving, especially in the South, in districts that are 75 percent, or even 80 percent, white, and where every incumbent’s worst fear is a challenge from the right.

But McInturff summed up the national party’s prospects with an old line from Mr. T in “Rocky III”: “Prediction? Pain!” He said the party’s “genetic instinct” is that younger voters don’t vote, and too many Republicans don’t understand the coming demographic wave. “Why am I a Republican?” he asked. “I believe in the power of markets. The marketplace is, you will lose — keep losing national elections — until you keep up.”

I wonder if Republican pollsters were telling them the same thing in, say, 1966, when the demographics looked like this:

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Insightful article...

and something that progressives should be wary of. This country is in need of a major lurch to the left, economically.

[gopiscrap]

3. I agree

[Leme]

2. I have been thinking this for 5 years or maybe 30

The powers that be are quite happy with the status quo.. they are making money almost as fast as they can and control what they need to control to ensure such.
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They get much of what they want, keep much of what they have, and get a little or lot more by having nothing done.
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The risk of change is too great. They might not be able to get that much more that easily. A little at a time adds up.