Nyvin
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2016, 09:20:47 PM » |
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« Edited: May 07, 2016, 09:22:30 PM by Nyvin »
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Trump is basically taking Romney's losing strategy on steroids....depending on the demographic group that's shrinking the fastest in the country (white working class), while appearing out of touch (to put it nicely) to the vast majority of the remainder of the country.
To add to this "losing strat on steroids" plan...four years have passed since 2012 and that shrinking demographic hasn't done much besides shrink.
So the people saying Trump is going to somehow win are basically saying the correct thing for Republicans to do from 2012 is alienate minorities, youth, and women "more" and depends even more heavily on old white males, and again this is when those groups (excluding women) have just gotten larger.
Not only is this crazy and stupid to think if it didn't work in 2012 it will in 2016....it has the potential to put the Republicans on a losing trajectory for the forseeable future by emboldening the kind of white working class primary voters that they're in charge of the party now and can always get "their candidate" nominated.
Will we see another "Trump" candidate in 2020? Maybe 2024 again? It kind of happened to the Democrats in the 80's...no reason to think it can't happen to them too.
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