Numbers Speak for Themselves Only If Listened to 0
PoliticalProf argues that focusing on a demographic explanation for the Republican Party’s losses in the recent election misses the point, unless the reason for the demographic disparity is taken into account. A nugget.
What this argument misses, of course, is the answer to the question, “why”? Why have so many different groups of people abandoned a party that, twice in the last 40 years, set all time records for electoral college margins of victory.
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The plain answer is: the leaders of the Republican Party have squandered the party’s advantages by appealing to the worst, basest instincts of a small segment of the electorate . . . .