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Republican's best consider their fading fortunes in the growing glow of the Hispanic light in America or they will find themselves utterly irrelevant in 20 years and permanently marginalized

What do you suggest?

I consider the main problem of the Republicans to be that they run and hide from Conservatism.

“I consider the main problem of the Republicans to be that they run and hide from Conservatism.”

I agree, but they also need to do a much better job of explaining what that means. Reagan was able to portray conservatism in terms of optimism and hope. Republicans, and conservatives in general have let themselves be painted as the compassionless ‘survival of the fittest’ party. Democrats have successfully mischaracterized this as ‘survival of the most selfish, luckiest, and most dishonest’.

Republicans need to do a much better job characterizing themselves as the ‘teach a man to fish’ party of growing opportunities. They should be talking about tax breaks and incentives to reward innovation and encourage the growth of new industries that will provide new opportunities. They need to provide a hopeful vision for the future and a reasonable plan for encouraging the realization of this vision with the smallest government footprint possible.

Maybe I’m not listening hard enough, but I’m not hearing messages of hope. What I hear, from both parties is ‘Things are bad. Elect me or they’ll get worse.’. Hardly messages of hope.