For those of you who need a crash course in American Conservatism, the Republican Party was made up of a solid collation that has served as the center of American politics for the last 38 years. This collation was made up of the following groups: Defense Community* Evangelicals Monetary Community* Open Market Community Populists The Wealthy
The Republican Party is a strong, policy and voter focused collation that came into prominence after a rebuild in the 1970s. This collation was typically a strong collation due to the lack of infighting between the collation members. With such a stable collation, the Republican Party has been largely able to steer the meta of national politics. The primary reason the party has not utterly dominated the political arena is actually due to the composition of the party itself. If you look list above you will notice that the majority of the list makes up the typical hierarchy of the American socioeconomic structure. Three times since it’s rebuild the party lost touch with the majority populace, as the party has often developed tunnel vision in service to what is now called “The One Percent."
Then the 2016 Election came, and there is multi-volume sized works that can be said about Donald J. Trump. During the 2016 election, Donald Trump effectively turned American politics upside down. This is even true for the Republican Party, as the core of the party transferred to the Populists.
Many people currently do not understand what the populist group is, even though it’s been a buzz word for the last three years. Populists is the nice way saying idiots. The populists are active voters that really don't understand how the political system works. They are generally made up of low income, low educated white folks who are drawn in by aggressive banter, nationalism, and simple lines of reasoning. From the view of their interests, these folks vote for the wrong party leaving them angry because the system would leave them to rot time after time.
Trump used this group by pandering to their interests primarily, and dragging the rest of the Republican Party to the polls against their traditional Democrat opponents. The problem for the Republicans is that method has greatly destabilized and in some ways splintered the Republican Party.
How Things Are
Now we need to address the voter blocks that have been affected by Trump. First we will address the Defense Community, which has split off about one fourth of its lobby to side with the Democrats. For those in this group who wanted a bigger military with more toys and more border security, they have gotten exactly what they wanted. However, those who focus on the intelligence agencies absolutely hate Trump. Be it claims that Trump doesn’t bother to read his intelligence reports or the fact the President has openly questioned the agencies’ loyalties and competence, Trump has run these folks out of the Republican Party until he leaves office.
Asher Lee
The Monetary Community is a small group of folks with two focuses, keeping a strong currency and a balanced budget. The strong currency part of the community was largely muted by the Open Market Community due to their desire to keep the costs of capital low. Now, due to the spending increases over the last two years the balanced budget part of the community has effectively become a small swinging voter block.
The final and most important group that needs to be covered here is one that wasn’t on the list but tended to vote two thirds Republican, Hispanics. Hispanics are Catholics that, contrary to all accepted wisdom, are for strong border security. Hispanics actually prefer to raise the barriers of entry to the US preventing more competition in their economic sector. The Bush Jr. Campaign did a great job in mobilizing Hispanics to vote Republican in 2000 and 2004. The problem for Republicans now is that the populists openly scapegoat the Hispanics to the point they have flipped one third of them to vote for the Democrats.
By almost every metric, the Republican Party should have dominated the 2018 election. However, the divide and fight posture of the populists/Trump has pushed far more people away than they should have. For the first time in my lifetime, the voters has signaled that the methods don’t always justify the results.
Xavier Collins
Things to Come
The Republicans have gotten an important lesson, but only they can choose to make something of it. If the Republicans continue their current attitude and actions, they will continue to divide the country to the point of risking a civil war. However, every card in the American political deck is currently in their hands and all they need is a leader who can play them without flipping the proverbial table.
Trump’s true test as President is now upon him. He can stick with his guns, ensuring a painful and likely disastrous two years to come. Or, the President can change tactics and unite some key players he has alienated. If he does switch tactics, the Democratic Party as a functional entity will rot and dissolve over the next four years. For the Conservatives out there I strongly suggest the latter, for all of our sake.
Anthony Myers
The nose knows isn't a meme
Easton Rogers
Bump
Jackson Walker
Jow Forums BTFO
Landon Lopez
Based and redpilled
Joshua Thompson
First Republicans lose the house now OP obliterates Jow Forums delusions. This is a bad week.
