2. It's true that Trump in 2020 showed GOP can be competitive with Latino voters (and to a lesser extent other POC voters). But that's not something GOP can bet on: it could be due to incumbent effect (which benefit Bush Jr. in 2004 & Obama in 2012).
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3. More to the point, as
@EricLevitz points out, the Tucker Carlson wing of GOP doesn't want party to become more multi-racial. And here some history is useful since these fights were played out in 1980s and 1980s between Pat Buchanan & Jack Kemp.Show this thread -
4. Already under Reagan there was a splintering of GOP into two opposed factions on race: the Jack Kemp approach of outreach & Pat Buchanan approach of low-level race war.
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5. Kemp, even though he was GOP vice presidential candidate in 1996, is almost forgotten today but he tried (unsuccessfully) to push GOP minority outreach with gimmicks like enterprise zones. He & Buchanan were the two poles of party on race & immigration.
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6. I've been re-reading Chronicles, paleo-con & Buchananite journal, and it's striking how much a hate figure Kemp was to right (even though he was a conventional Reaganite). Here he's being called a looter.pic.twitter.com/125iUXsbYb
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7. Everything we're seeing today - not to mention Trump's domination - would indicate that Pat Buchanan won the wars of the 1990s. The party prefers to dominate by shrinking electorate rather than be compromised (as they see it) by POC votes. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/is-the-gop-war-on-democracy-self?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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They know that the gerrymandering and other strategies work
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Not to mention that centrist and conservative Democrats want a stronger Republican party to help with fundraising & to partner with to hold back progressive change.
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There is no mystery if, or why, the GOP is anti democratic. It works and has for years.https://davidkeithlaw.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/the-new-red-menace/ …
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No, it's not a decision of choice. Trumpism was always implicit in modern conservatism.
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