The random hate for Sean Trende, as though he has any influence over the Republican party, or isn't a perfectly reasonable pundit, no better or worse than any of the others, is bizarre. (In fact, I just tried to find some of Trende's own views and came up with nothing; people have reached the conclusion that he is a Republican in order to be able to throw his analysis away).
Isn't he the guy that predicted doom and gloom for Obamacare?
'Nuff said.
He also said just a few weeks after the 2012 election, when even the most die hard Tea Partiers (and I'm not just talking Karl Rove and the like, but even guys like Ted Cruz or thereabouts) had realized they had to adopt a less hateful attitude towards Hispanics in order to survive as a party, that GOP could continue surfing on its current path and that it wouldn't even have any slight problems what so ever with winning any future presidential elections because white voters would continue to represent the übervast majority for decades and decades and decades and more decades to comes. Of the electorate that is. No need to adjust path anytime soon, cause minorities will keep being minorities and thus can/will/shall/might/must be suppressed.
Obviously the guy is completely lunatic. A psychologist would probably even find Dick Cheney to be semi-sane if only compared to this moron.
Hyperbole much?
Anyhow, I don't think that Trende is being unrealistic. He even admitted in his new article that he wouldn't be surprised to wake up the day after this election and see Republicans only pick up two or three Senate seats. All in all, it seemed like Trende had a reasonable explanation for his theory that this year's Senate races could shift to Republicans.
No, not as long as the Republican party could have been a grown up party by now, in line with a long range of sister parties in Europe and elsewhere. Instead, Trende's claim that the only thing GOP needed was even more white voters, made the second Tea Party revolution with all of its denial happen. We could have had a semi-serious Republican party by now, which every single serious Republican official wanted (from Karl Rove to the chairman himself). Instead we have anarchy. And the only and sole reason for that is named Sean Trende. It's not hyperbole.
I seriously challenge you to read the article and disprove Trende's points rather than his overarching conclusion (which is that, while probably significantly more difficult than appealing to minorities, a path of appealing to more Midwestern and western white voters to win elections does exist).
