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CrabCake
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« on: November 13, 2017, 06:16:27 AM » |
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I mean it is possible to run on Trumpist style "IM ANGRY" messages and win minorities. Best seen, in North America at least, in Toronto (of all places) with Rob Ford, who won pretty impressive margins with minorities by focusing his drug induced rage at effete urban liberals.
One answer for the GOP is to study up on ethnic cleavages in the old world and find a way to break-up voter blocs. The classic one at the moment is trying to pivot towards BJP-friendly members of the Hindu diaspora to make inroads in Asian voters. Not a particularly honourable solution, but politics is a dirty game.
The other idea is that racism in its American form will start to crumble away and be replaced with the far more common colourism, which would allow inroads into certain Hispanic communities. Especially the "integrated" ones - I imagine many Hispanics down the line, especially considering the rate they marry out of the community, will see their Hispanic identity as akin to Irish-Americans.
I highly doubt the GOP will ever penetrate African Americans in the foreseeable future without something really weird happening to the party system.
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