1. On deeper level, Trump's tearing apart GOP shows problems of strategy of party doubling down on white vote.
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2. It's probably true that GOP could, as per Sailer & Trende, increase its share of white voter via various forms of identity politics.
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3. The problem for GOP of just relying on larger share of white vote is that white people are actually quite diverse.
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4. This will seem blindingly obvious but worth saying: white people come in all shapes & sizes. Some are rich, some are poor, etc.
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5. A party that is increasingly white will also be a party that is riven by various class and social divisions among white people.
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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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7. You know what white people are also divided on? Foreign policy. They don't have a consensus on that. So whiter GOP will be divided on FP
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@Chet_Kincaid Right but the strategy is to get all the whites in one tent. That won't work at all.
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