1. On deeper level, Trump's tearing apart GOP shows problems of strategy of party doubling down on white vote.
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@HeerJeet If white people don't have an obvious "other" to attack, we will pick ourselves apart. We aren't good at diversity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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6. An increasingly white GOP means a party that has larger # of working class whites & hence forced to be more economically populist
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@HeerJeet of course nativism and jingoism can do a lot to plaster over class divides in GOP
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@HeerJeet Answer/rationale is in Harper riff u were posting last night. Power supports the lower taxes candidate. The rest is superfluous.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Similar to original GOP, broad party of Northern capitalism vs. Southern feudalism — eventually riven by divisions in capitalism. -
@HeerJeet Though more pointedly, the post-Civil War Democrats were the "White Man's Banner" — soon had to morph into economic populists.
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@HeerJeet In Alabama, in mid '50s, all were Dem. Terribly splintered vicious primaries, no competition in main election. Very bad.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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