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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of these nonsensical and wishful-thinking death predictions for the Republican Party are rooted in a misinterpretation of the fact that the reason the Republican Party is having a tough time managing its various factions is precisely BECAUSE they have been so successful. Look (as Obama likes to say--"LOOK, folks"), the Republicans are the bigger tent party now. Democrats decided several years ago to do away with the white working class. They hate and resent them, actually. They resent their values, their religion, their respect for the individual over the state, and they resent many of their industries. Jim Webb's Democrat Party is long, long gone.

Obama won the 2012 election with 51% of the popular vote. That's no landslide. And the strategy he picked was to double down on progressives and say good riddance to the working class. He also wins on identity politics, which is a major factor for both progressives and, in his case, blacks. It's very difficult to say, though, whether blacks will be as motivated to turn out for a white Democrat. It's doubtful, actually. And what's worse, Hillary or Joe will not have the working class that Obama summarily dismissed.

Republicans now control the House of Representatives, the Senate, the vast majority of state legislatures, both upper and lower chambers, and the vast majority of governorships. Yes, it's difficult to keep a working coalition together between the big business conservatives, the suburban middle class that doesn't like heavy taxes, the religious right, the libertarians, and so forth. But the important point is they've got them, and that's more than the Democrats can claim. Democrats are just hoping and praying that there are enough Lena Dunham's who spend their lives obsessing over free abortion and microagressions. But as we start to see more and more backlash against the excessive PC movement (check out all the press lambasting the trigger warning culture), that faction is going to weaken as some of them come to their senses. Then what will the Democrats have, other than a few angry college professors who want Bernie Sanders' Denmark?
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I stopped taking this seriously at "the Republicans are the bigger tent party now," especially given that your rationale is that [b]white working class people are voting republican.[/b]  [/quote]

Right, law enforcement is staying in the Democratic fold. You're sorely mistaken that because an industry is organized that they're in Comrade deBlasio's camp, guess what, they're not.[/quote]

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