So Long, Grand Old Party; Hello, White People’s Party

[Cali_Democrat]

CLEVELAND – As it officially puts Donald Trump atop its ticket this week, the Grand Old Party is rushing headlong toward an unofficial label it is desperately trying to avoid: the White People’s Party.

With his harsh tone toward Mexicans, his proposed ban on Muslims from entering the United States and his seeming tolerance of white nationalist groups, the reality TV star is painting Republicans ever further into a demographic corner that could threaten their viability as a national political organization in the coming decades.

“If we don’t expand our ability to reach voters, particularly Hispanic voters, and the rising tide of Asian voters, we’re going to have a generational wipeout,” said Florida’s Rick Wilson, a Republican political consultant and longtime Trump critic.

Trump’s language and positions appear to be translating into dismal poll numbers already, particularly in those states where it could matter most. In Florida, a June poll found Trump receiving 20 percent support from Latino voters compared to 68 percent for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-white-voters-minorities_us_578c0fede4b08608d334f697?section=

[NWCorona]

1. I thought they were always one in the same

I remember when and why J.C Watts quit lol

[tonyt53]

2. You really need to add "Some" in front of "White". Lots of us are sane.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Thank you.

[MisterFred]

4. Yeah.

I get enough people assuming I'm conservative because of my appearance as it is.

[tclambert]

5. Hey, what about orange tabbies with wigs?

And Oompa Loompas?

[Coolest Ranger]

6. I wonder how many people

are going to say you are wrong for posting this

[IronLionZion]

7. The minorities who support him are some of the worst people

There are some who hate Muslims just as much as his white racist supporters do. And some idiotic US citizens with immigrant backgrounds would like to close the door behind them and not let anyone else in.

Then there are the minority business types who seriously think the bankrupter in chief is going to be good for business.

Hillary is good for the people and good for business. I don't fault her for that. Democrats are generally much better for businesses that depend on consumer demand. See Obama and Clinton on job creation.

[angrychair]

8. I am a middle-aged, white male

I am also a Democrat liberal progressive feminist atheist who has voted in every election since I was 18 as a Democrat.

I get the point you are trying to make but though I am a middle-aged white male, I am part of the solution and not part of the problem and always have been.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Who said you are part of the problem?

The article is specific to white GOPers and their leaders who are attempting to create a whites-only party.

[angrychair]

12. Respectfully

There have been several articles today that go on and on about "white people" this and "white people" that.


the problem is not that teapublicans are "white people", it's how they think, not the color of their skin.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. People like Steve King

CONGRESSMAN STEVE KING MAKES WHITE SUPREMACIST COMMENTS ON LIVE TV

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/steve-king-white-people-live-tv

[angrychair]

14. Exactly

King is an idiot, a racist asshole and a complete waste of space but it's not because he is "white".

What these ignorant assholes forget is while we may be the majority in the US and Europe, worldwide, Asians (mostly from China and India) are the true majority in the world.

[Spazito]

9. Here's an interesting analysis from Canada...

ANALYSIS
The Party of Trump, the party of white America
With Trump, Republican Party signals it's not interested in reaching minority voters

Republicans are experimenting with a new delusion this week. They are indulging the fiction that all the internal bother about their nominee is just the usual grumbling you always hear from sore losers when things don't turn out for them.

It was the same when Ronald Reagan was the nominee; the same when it was George W. Bush, to paraphrase Trump's White House transition captain, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

That's transparently false.

snip

To pretend Trump isn't fundamentally transforming the Republican brand in ways that are, to some, disgusting is plainly dishonest.

more

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-republicans-the-party-of-white-america-1.3681811

[bemildred]

11. Alabastocans. nt