Who do Republicans like more?

[TheReckoning]

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[Stuart98]

Tulsi is seen as the Republicans' Democrat, Romney is seen as the Democrats' Republican. Policy wise most Republicans are much closer to Romney than they are to Tulsi, but the things that Tulsi gets attention and scrutiny over are the ones where the GOP agrees with her, whereas the things that Romney gets attention and scrutiny over are the ones where the bulk of the GOP vehemently disagrees with him on. Republicans definitely like Tulsi more.

[Tekken_Guy]

Tulsi is seen as the Republicans' Democrat, Romney is seen as the Democrats' Republican. Policy wise most Republicans are much closer to Romney than they are to Tulsi, but the things that Tulsi gets attention and scrutiny over are the ones where the GOP agrees with her, whereas the things that Romney gets attention and scrutiny over are the ones where the bulk of the GOP vehemently disagrees with him on. Republicans definitely like Tulsi more.

What about Manchin, Sinema, Kinzinger, Cheney in that regard?

[Real Texan Politics]

Tulsi when it comes to culture war stuff, which is a big priority in the party right now.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This pub likes Tulsi more.

[Torie]

When I left the Pub Party, Tulsi moved into the lead. 

[Progressive Pessimist]

Tulsi Gabbard, and at the very least probably because she is physically attractive.

[Rand]

Republicans don't like anything. That's what makes them Republicans.

[Pericles]

Do most normal Republicans even know who Tulsi Gabbard is?

[Badger]

This pub likes Tulsi more.

Yeah, but we know you man, and know you only do so because of her ass.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

A better question would be, "Who do Republicans like more, Moloch or Mammon?"

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This pub likes Tulsi more.

Yeah, but we know you man, and know you only do so because of her ass.

Me?  I'm stunned and hurt by this comment, my friend.  Stunned I tell you!  I should report this as a personal attack. 

[Person Man]

I can see people like Tulsi filling the "Reagan Democrats" role if the next Republican president wins by a landslide and depolarizes the country over the next 10 years around a new Republican consensus and/or becoming the prototype of a "Clinton 2.0" or "New Democrat" that leads Democrats out of the wilderness in the 2030s. It will be interesting if the 2010-2040 are basically the same as 1970-2000.

The main difference will be that in the Reagan Era, there was a new neoliberal consensus, cultural things like immigration, civil rights, and trade were dumped to the side  and religious things became the new polarizing issues. I think maybe the roles of these cultural issues and economic issues kind of flip roles with social issues still being used to either galvanize the base or something to compromise on to win skeptical but pursuable voters.

So yeah. Maybe someone like Tulsi will be popular with Republicans the same way some of them were happy with people like Gene Taylor or even Bill Clinton for a time. Perhaps in a way they weren't happy with someone like Bill Weld or John Anderson.

If this potential future comes to be, we can see Democrats telling people on things like policing and immigration that certain advocates and voters "don't deliver" and instead finally getting more aggressive on things like Universal Health Care, Public Schools, taxing the rich, and unions. I don't think things like LGBT, marijuana, or abortion are going to develop any new consensus, though and perhaps becoming even more galvanizing unless these things become truly states' rights issues.

I could see the US adopting a lot of 1920s-style immigration, trade, and crime policies if someone like DeSantis wins two 30 state landslides in a row and perhaps 2 or 3 trifectas and some Democrat like Tulsi (if she becomes completely pro-life or a Republican it won't be her) winning in the 2030s that will maintain a lot of these policies but otherwise push through and be successful with very liberal policies on things like economics, and to a smaller extent, social issues.