Posted on 10/31/2018 2:07:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The closing campaign strategy of President Donald Trump and Republicans is often depicted as mainly an effort to galvanize the GOP's blue-collar white base through fear-mongering about immigrants and incitement of racial-cultural tensions around imagery of angry Democratic mobs and protesting African American athletes.
But there's a second piece to the strategy that's also crucial: Trump and Republicans want college-educated white voters, particularly suburban women, to ignore all that unpleasant racial and cultural demagoguery entirely - and focus only on the economy.
It is widely observed that Democrats are favored to take back the House because of a backlash against Trump's ugly personal characteristics and verbal displays of racism and misogyny. But it is already discernible in Trump and Republican messaging that the public has turned on the Trump-era GOP's agenda - that is, its peculiar fusion of xenophobic ethno-nationalism with orthodox GOP regressive and plutocratic economic priorities.
Trump and Republicans are closing by lying about health care and taxes to limit losses among suburban and well-educated white voters, and lying about immigration while race-baiting against individual Democratic candidates to keep the downscale white GOP base energized. This probably won't be enough for Republicans to keep the House. But whatever is to be on this front, the need to lie so relentlessly about all these matters itself constitutes an admission of failure. The public has seen Trump's fusion of ethno-nationalism and orthodox GOP plutocracy put into governing practice, and is rejecting it.
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Disagree completely. Despite RAT wishes, hopes and desires, President Trump's actions will lead to the Repubs holding the House and maybe even pickup a few seats.
President Trump supporters are fired up and will show up in droves next Tues. Except for me, of course. I voted absentee :)
I DO NOT AGREE!
Please proceed into my cleared FREE FIRE ZONE.
“We are going to win win win.” -President Trump
Believe me.
Maybe that is why some folks call it the Washington Compost.
I’m hoping for a 60/40 Senate after this election. The RATs had that at the start of the Obamanation. That’s how they rammed through zerocare and that Barney Frank bank bill . Image all the RAT infestation that could get reversed!
Same BS narrative. All Trump supporters are uneducated What male hicks. Hey! Has this idiot ever left SF? Probably eats lactose free soy milk while smunching on reduced Carb macadamia nuts.
LIBS always have been mentally disturbed . President Trump merely is taking off their cloaking. This why they began closing mental asylums in the 1960s. They realized they would eventually would be committed for being lunatics .
I vote for suicide .
Yes, I vote for suicide also.:0)
Well, the traditional leftist explanation would be that whites are smarter than "those people".
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