Trump's strategy: racial polarisation?

[Boston Bread]

So my working theory is Trump thinks that if he divides the country along racial lines (whites vs blacks/hispanics) the white majority will flock to him and send him to the White House. This is probably because he's very old and thinks it's 1980 when such a strategy did work.

r u retarded? thats what dems do, and thats why they have 95% uneducated black votes.

so educated blacks are voting republican?

[Boston Bread]

A race war is what Trump and his supporters want, but polls don't show him doing better than Romney with the white vote. He's holding steady at best, or doing even worse in others.

[Boston Bread]

Well, it's a losing strategy.

Divide and conquer: It worked for other dictators.

I guess Trump wants to join the ranks of other dictators.

[Boston Bread]

^ I realize; I was just asking mgop a rhetorical question.

To everyone who is hoping that Republicans can just rely on white voters in the future continuously, let me say that a Republican party that is getting >70% of the white vote as a result of racial backlash is not going to be a small-government party, to say the least. Be careful what you wish for.

[Boston Bread]

Edit: I don't think third world countries having low social spending is applicable. Among developed countries the correlation is a lot smaller.

You also can have big government without a large % on social spending. ex. Trump's wall or deportation plans would massively expand government power.

[Boston Bread]

The trend does exist. But the situation is more complicated in the US, considering increasing government size and decreasing whiteness are happening side by side.

I think moderation on a host of issues will be necessary for an almost entirely white GOP victory past 2020. At that point they would be scraping the barrel so hard they'd need to be winning over millennial Sanders supporters to reach the necessary level of white support. Trump is somewhat indicative of how it would work.

Have fun with Trump for the meantime, though.