Vosem
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« on: October 23, 2019, 07:06:44 PM » |
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I don't know that reversion is necessarily possible, never mind desirable; the relevant social issues of the day have shifted a great deal. You can't campaign on banning gay marriage anymore, for instance; Republicans today are more pro-immigration than Americans as a whole were in the 1990s, and candidates who are pro-marijuana legalization consistently run ahead of their party's baseline.
But it seems pretty clear to me that the GOP was stronger before Trump; Romney for all his faults had more support in the electorate, and midterm elections in 2010/2014 had Republicans winning national majorities with a clear-cut, popular reformist platform. Under Trump they struggle to reach the mid-'40s, having alienated a bunch of suburban voters without really winning anyone new over.
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