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Thursday, Dec 17, 2015 05:02 PM EST
R.I.P., GOP: Party of old, disillusioned white people is dying a slow death
Changing Demographics will be the death knell for the Republican Party even though it may take White House in '16
Sean Illing
No matter who wins the nomination battle, the Republican Party has a much bigger problem: demographics. A new report released by the Center for American Progress analyzed the demographic advantages for Democrats in 2016 and beyond and the results are overwhelmingly positive.
And this should surprise no one.
Observers on both sides have long questioned the Republican Partys viability in an increasingly progressive and less white America. With every national election, it becomes more obvious that the GOPs Southern Strategy, which exploited racial and cultural resentment for votes, has finally backfired.
As The Nations William Greider wrote in October: The GOP finds itself trapped in a marriage that has not only gone bad but is coming apart in full public view. After five decades of shrewd strategy, the Republican coalition Richard Nixon put together in 1968 welcoming the segregationist white South into the Party of Lincoln is now devouring itself in ugly, spiteful recriminations.
Greider was responding to the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, who left on account of the nihilistic Tea Party caucus. The Tea Party extremists in Congress, like the social conservatives who supported them, are part of a reactionary movement of cultural discontents whose only purpose is to negate and obstruct, and theyve proven that in office.
This movement, which has consumed the Republican Party, consists primarily of old and disillusioned white people who are rejecting a world that, in many respects, has passed them by. The nativism, the xenophobia, the social hysteria, the religious demagoguery this is what defines the GOP now, and it stems from the partys cynical plot to capitalize on cultural angst nearly fifty years ago.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/12/17/r_i_p_gop_party_of_old_disillusioned_white_people_is_dying_a_slow_death_report_says/
randys1
(16,286 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)primary, is a single issue candidate, now would you? Because that would be bull puckie, even from a Hillary supporter.
randys1
(16,286 posts)You should give up, you will never see me ATTACK Bernie at all let alone the way you all attack Hillary.
You will see me criticize certain Bernie SUPPORTERS for being
well I cant say, because I will be silenced if i do and we both know it.
I need to go to a place that is populated mostly by liberals to say it
But alas, yet again, no, didnt say a word about Bernie...
You see, like me, if Bernie is not the candidate, he and I will work to elect Hillary.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The millions of racist, stupid fundie assholes in this country need a party too.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Kidding!
Mark Twain said "putting us on?"
Now get off my lawn!
merrily
(45,251 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)More likely somebody putting words in his mouth.
merrily
(45,251 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)last two or three midterms.
Another lesson is to have Democrats win more elections. I happen to agree with Truman. The way to do that is not by running Pub Lites or trojan horses.
madville
(7,410 posts)If they just say it often enough, year after year, sooner or later it might eventually come true.
The Republicans are done - Damn they stole another one.
The Republicans are finished - Damn, biggest House majority since WW2?
The Republicans voters are dying off - Opps, let them get the Senate.
The Republicans are losing all the purple states - Record number of Governorships and State Legislatures? Say What!?
merrily
(45,251 posts)The Republican Party did a post mortem on itself in 2013. Meanwhile, it had done pretty well in 2010. smh
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)going through the bowels of the Republican party.
It was a painfully slow movement that started with Reagan.
it was accompanied by the sonorous thunder of Buchanan, Limbaugh and Coulter,
and it will end appropriately with a perfect asswipe, George W. Bush.
merrily
(45,251 posts)If that's dying, someone please put me in intensive care, STAT.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)or dying is the point.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Ben Carson is a pervert, I think he is more of a stoner.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)And that would happen if everyone voted that could. Especially women and minorities, new citizens and young voters..