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> Which is why when the newest generation largely voted against the republican party, they chose to soften their image... Wait no, that's exactly what they didn
by commandlinefan 4y ago
> Which is why when the newest generation largely voted against the republican party, they chose to soften their image... Wait no, that's exactly what they didn't do
Actually, they did - if you go back and look at the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, the Republicans ran incredibly moderate candidates (honestly, Bush was pretty moderate himself). It wasn't until that approach kept failing they finally went back to their roots (kind of, sort of, because Trump wasn't really all that right wing, but he did oppose illegal immigration).
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Actually, they did - if you go back and look at the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, the Republicans ran incredibly moderate candidates Neither the McCain/Palin nor Romney/Ryan tickets were “incredibly moderate” by comparison to past Republicans; by comparison to the 2016 and later party, sure. > It wasn't until that approach kept failing they finally went back to their roots While appeal to nativism and White Supremacy has been part of Republican campaigns for 5 decades (including 2008-2012), and focus on non-race culture war issues has been for a 3 decades (also including 2008-2012), the former u has largely been coded until recently, and the latter has never had the kind of vicious legislatige agenda attached as you see now. The Republican Party of the last few years isn't a “return” to anything of its past. Neither is the naked nepotism and disregard for domestic democratic institutions.