Will the GOP Go Back to Being an Anti Working Class Establishment Party Like the democRATS

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Given the likely defeat of President Donald Trump, a functionally headless Republican Party is destined for a period of reflection. Trump himself, for all his rudeness and often unnecessary, divisive rhetoric, has transformed the Republican Party from being a bastion of the establishment to a voice for America's working and middle class.



In the aftermath of Trump's narrow defeat, the media will likely push "respectable" anti-Trump front groups, like the Democratic funded AstroTurf Lincoln Project and others who backed President-elect Joe Biden. But given Trump's extraordinary support among Republicans, these onetime GOP media and political operatives have a stronger affinity with today's Democrats who, increasingly, resemble the old Republicans, with lockstep support from the upper class, notably on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as well as law and professional service firms.



Certainly, the "party of the people" is where the money is: Overall Democratic campaign spending has more than tripled since 2008, running this year about two times that for Republicans. The upcoming cataclysmic battle to win the Georgia Senate seats already started with a big Silicon Valley fundraiser. As the Democrats have gathered in the .01 percent, Trump won three-quarters of the white working-class vote, down slightly from 2016, but made significant gains with racial minorities.

[Anonymous]

American Needs A Middle- And Working-Class Party



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The working class did poorly under former President Barack Obama, as well as his gentry Republican predecessors, while their incomes rose during Trump's brief presidency before COVID-19. This may explain why even with the amiable Irishman Joe Biden atop the ticket, the Democratic brand is "not good" among working-class voters, as lamented by Rep. Tim Ryan who represents hardscrabble Youngstown in Congress. This conclusion was also drawn by the campaign experience of Presidential candidate Andrew Yang.



As of today, both the middle and working classes have little reason to adhere to a mainstream political party. The reasons go beyond cultural reaction or racism, as some progressives insist. When Trump lambasts free trade and China, he may alienate much of the corporate elite, but the message appeals to people and communities that lost, according to one labor-backed group, 3.4 million jobs between 1979 and 2017 to the Middle Kingdom.



Trump has done best with those who work with their hands, in factories, the logistics industry and energy; these working-class voters, notes a recent study by CityLab, repair and operate machines, drive trucks and operate our power grid. Some progressives suggest it's time for Democrats to abandon the working class and rely instead on educated millennials, minorities, and professionals as well as globally oriented businesses. This seems likely to push the party away from lunch-bucket issues and into the insidious realm of identity politics.

[Anonymous]

The Racial Component



In 2016, Trump's appeal to minorities was limited by his own nativist rhetoric, and, more so, that of his sometimes truly deplorable supporters, although he did no worse than gentry candidate Mitt Romney years earlier. This year he gained a significantly larger Latino vote, particularly in Florida and Texas (but not so well in California), and did better, albeit less impressively, among African Americans. Overall, he won the highest percentage of minority votes than any Republican since 1960.



The reasons for this pattern seem obvious. Latinos are heavily represented in blue-collar professions, notably in the service fields, construction, logistics and manufacturing. They have generally done better under President Trump than previous administrations and have been most hurt by lockdowns, high energy prices and curbs on suburban housing.



The ever more radical social views that dominate the "woke" left and increasingly corporate America also may not play well with many immigrants who, according to one recent survey, are twice as conservative in their social views as the general public. Hispanics may not be the reliable social conservatives imagined by some Republicans, but they certainly seem unlikely to widely share the world-view of woke faculty lounges. Adding Latinos, African Americans and, in some states, Asians to the GOP's working and middle-class base will prove critical to building a populist majority. Today barely 58% of all working-class Americans are white; according to a 2016 Economic Policy Institute study, people of color will constitute the majority of the working class by 2032.

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The Birth Of A Multi-Ethnic, Working-Class Conservatism

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The wags are having their fun with an election result that's hinged upon whether Joe Biden garnered sufficient support from white voters to negate an apparent surge toward Donald Trump among minority groups. The president owes much of his margin in Florida to strong gains in Miami's Cuban-American community, while in Texas he won largely-Hispanic Zapata County along the Mexican border, which Hillary Clinton won by more than 30 points four years ago. Not everyone is amused.



Writing in the New York Times, columnist Charles Blow declares himself "stunned" by the "personally devastating" news that exit polls (all disclaimers apply) show minority groups continuing their rightward trend of recent years. In what must surely be among the most noxious claims printed in recent years by The New York Times, he concludes that, "All of this to me points to the power of the white patriarchy and the coattail it has of those who depend on it or aspire to it. ... Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with the oppressors, and will aspire to power by proximity."



Blow's gross accusation follows "analyses" from several other writers blinded by staring incessantly through the same racial lens. Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619-Project fame solves her conundrum by deciding that some minorities who support President Trump actually are white, while The Root's Michael Harriot explains that such support is how they become white. Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott says they "support white supremacy" and his colleague Karen Attiah describes them as "going along to get along" with white supremacists as a "survival strategy." A befuddled Paul Krugman, perhaps looking backward through his binoculars, declares that he has "no idea what the true lessons are."



Turn the binoculars around, and it is easy to see a realignment of working-class voters, regardless of race, toward the party that expresses an interest in their economic concerns. The Democratic Party has become the party of college-educated professionals, focused on forgiving student debt and a "transition" from uncouth industries, ensuring the unfettered flow of unskilled immigrant workers, and framing education policy around the interests of teachers rather than students. Yes, they will raise taxes, but they will fight tooth-and-nail for the "SALT" deduction that gives a discount to owners of expensive homes in high-tax states. They will expand government programs, but their idea of "pro-family" policy is free childcare so both parents can work full-time. What they'd really like to talk to you about, if you have a minute, is climate change and racial justice.



Trump emphasized people's jobs, the importance of industries like manufacturing and professions like the trades, and the value people placed on their own places—the towns where they lived, and their roles as productive contributors to their communities. The problem was not a tax rate that discouraged investors from creating jobs, it was that investors preferred creating jobs in China. His "plan" was not to get everyone a college degree, or retrain them in some exciting new field, or help them move somewhere with greater opportunity, it was to make those things unnecessary. He was interested in "law and order," not "critical race theory"; in "clean air and water," not solving "global climate change"; in advancing American interests through foreign and immigration policy, not abstractly "reflecting our values"; in rising wages that allow you to support your family, not government programs that support your family because you cannot. Many people of all races feel the same way.



The idea of conservatives as the vindicator of workers' interests may sound strange, but only because we have forgotten what conservatism means. The market fundamentalism that we call "conservative," celebrating growth and markets without concern for their effects on family and community, and trusting that the invisible hand will invariably advance the interests of the nation, is libertarian. Conservatives are moving beyond it. And experience now suggests that, as they do, a broad-based, multi-ethnic coalition of working families could be eager to join them.

[Odinson]

Its too bad that USA doesnt have functional unions..



They could go in general strike and really mix things for the democrats.

[Anonymous]

Its too bad that USA doesnt have functional unions..



They could go in general strike and really mix things for the democrats.

I am a member of a trade union. They take our dues and give it to a political party(NDP) who want to send Canadian jobs overseas.

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Given the likely defeat of President Donald Trump, a functionally headless Republican Party is destined for a period of reflection. Trump himself, for all his rudeness and often unnecessary, divisive rhetoric, has transformed the Republican Party from being a bastion of the establishment to a voice for America's working and middle class.



In the aftermath of Trump's narrow defeat, the media will likely push "respectable" anti-Trump front groups, like the Democratic funded AstroTurf Lincoln Project and others who backed President-elect Joe Biden. But given Trump's extraordinary support among Republicans, these onetime GOP media and political operatives have a stronger affinity with today's Democrats who, increasingly, resemble the old Republicans, with lockstep support from the upper class, notably on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as well as law and professional service firms.



Certainly, the "party of the people" is where the money is: Overall Democratic campaign spending has more than tripled since 2008, running this year about two times that for Republicans. The upcoming cataclysmic battle to win the Georgia Senate seats already started with a big Silicon Valley fundraiser. As the Democrats have gathered in the .01 percent, Trump won three-quarters of the white working-class vote, down slightly from 2016, but made significant gains with racial minorities.

I never liked the Republican Party until Trump made it the party of the working class.

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Given the likely defeat of President Donald Trump, a functionally headless Republican Party is destined for a period of reflection. Trump himself, for all his rudeness and often unnecessary, divisive rhetoric, has transformed the Republican Party from being a bastion of the establishment to a voice for America's working and middle class.



In the aftermath of Trump's narrow defeat, the media will likely push "respectable" anti-Trump front groups, like the Democratic funded AstroTurf Lincoln Project and others who backed President-elect Joe Biden. But given Trump's extraordinary support among Republicans, these onetime GOP media and political operatives have a stronger affinity with today's Democrats who, increasingly, resemble the old Republicans, with lockstep support from the upper class, notably on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as well as law and professional service firms.



Certainly, the "party of the people" is where the money is: Overall Democratic campaign spending has more than tripled since 2008, running this year about two times that for Republicans. The upcoming cataclysmic battle to win the Georgia Senate seats already started with a big Silicon Valley fundraiser. As the Democrats have gathered in the .01 percent, Trump won three-quarters of the white working-class vote, down slightly from 2016, but made significant gains with racial minorities.

I never liked the Republican Party until Trump made it the party of the working class.

I can't frickin stand establishment GOP like the Bush family, and Mitt Romney.

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Given the likely defeat of President Donald Trump, a functionally headless Republican Party is destined for a period of reflection. Trump himself, for all his rudeness and often unnecessary, divisive rhetoric, has transformed the Republican Party from being a bastion of the establishment to a voice for America's working and middle class.



In the aftermath of Trump's narrow defeat, the media will likely push "respectable" anti-Trump front groups, like the Democratic funded AstroTurf Lincoln Project and others who backed President-elect Joe Biden. But given Trump's extraordinary support among Republicans, these onetime GOP media and political operatives have a stronger affinity with today's Democrats who, increasingly, resemble the old Republicans, with lockstep support from the upper class, notably on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, as well as law and professional service firms.



Certainly, the "party of the people" is where the money is: Overall Democratic campaign spending has more than tripled since 2008, running this year about two times that for Republicans. The upcoming cataclysmic battle to win the Georgia Senate seats already started with a big Silicon Valley fundraiser. As the Democrats have gathered in the .01 percent, Trump won three-quarters of the white working-class vote, down slightly from 2016, but made significant gains with racial minorities.

I never liked the Republican Party until Trump made it the party of the working class.

I can't frickin stand establishment GOP like the Bush family, and Mitt Romney.

Neocons like David Frum and the late John McCain are even worse than the likes of Romney.

[Anonymous]

I believe libertarians and blue collar Trump supporters can find common ground. We are both opposed to endless foreign wars for example.

[Odinson]

Its too bad that USA doesnt have functional unions..



They could go in general strike and really mix things for the democrats.

I am a member of a trade union. They take our dues and give it to a political party(NDP) who want to send Canadian jobs overseas.

My union pays me 70% of my regular salary should I get fired... Its many times more than the normal welfare check you get from the government.



And they also give me a lawyer should I get discriminated because of my race and sexual orientation.





There are pros and cons.



The rather fat paycheck for doing nothing is a big pro.

[Anonymous]

Its too bad that USA doesnt have functional unions..



They could go in general strike and really mix things for the democrats.

I am a member of a trade union. They take our dues and give it to a political party(NDP) who want to send Canadian jobs overseas.

My union pays me 70% of my regular salary should I get fired... Its many times more than the normal welfare check you get from the government.



And they also give me a lawyer should I get discriminated because of my race and sexual orientation.





There are pros and cons.



The rather fat paycheck for doing nothing is a big pro.

If you are a member of a powerful union in Canada, dismissal is almot impossible..



But, if you are fired, the union will eventually get one's job back in perhaps a year, with one hundred per cent of lost wages.

[Anonymous]

I aint no conservative, but the only people that benefitted from the US having the highest corporate taxes in the workd were in Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore where US corporations put their head offices. Higher income taxes on high income earners I don't care about. But, 400k is no longer rich.



Biden Pledges To Hike Taxes To Bush Administration Levels

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President-elect Joe Biden in a Wednesday interview said "there's no reason why" his administration shouldn't raise both corporate and individual income taxes to levels maintained during former president George Bush's administration.

[Anonymous]

Back to the future as Biden looks to go back to constant foreign intervention.



Joe Biden Considers Samantha Power, Known For Advocating Military Intervention Abroad, To Lead USAID

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Joe Biden is reportedly considering former United Nations ambassador Samantha Power to lead the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to Axios.



Power is the author of "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," a book published in 2002 detailing the U.S.'s inaction during periods of genocide abroad. Power had been a freelance war correspondent in the Balkans in the 1990s. She is known for advocating for greater humanitarian interventions, and has written that the U.S. must be "prepared to risk the lives of its soldiers" in order to counter assaults on civilians abroad, the New Yorker reported.



She joined the White House in 2009, and soon after in 2011, began to push for military intervention in Libya as a member of the National Security Council. Biden, who was vice president at the time, opposed the no-fly zone, but former President Barack Obama later supported one.

[Anonymous]

AOC says the democRATs need new leadership. That idiot thinks the reason they lost seats in congress was that they didn't go progtardy enough. Working class people really want cops definded and bankrupting the US with a ridiculous $92 trilion dollard Green New Deal.