“The espoused goal of every Republican I know of is to be able to attract Dems.”
the problem is what they may have to do to attract those Dems. As I have said, I haven’t encountered a Dem who wasn’t a leftist wing-nut in a generation. The “Reagan Dems” don’t exist. they’re either Republicans, independents, or dead, or the Democrat party has made them brain-dead.
Not so. There are plenty of blue collar voters who are still register democrats but will vote for Trump.
Even the SEIU and UAW leaders have complained that perhaps a majority of their members might vote for Trump.
They absolutely do exist. We deal with them in OH all the time. But what Trump says-—border, Muslim immigration ban, guns-—appeals to ALL but left sing kooks. And NRA stats show 23% of its members are Dems. They are definitely out there.