I don't think the Republican Party wants to win the White House in 2016.

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9. Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote?

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34056-do-republicans-really-want-the-black-and-latino-vote

From the campaign of Barry Goldwater in 1964 to the antics of Donald Trump today, all signs point to “not really.”
et him the hell out of here,” said Donald Trump. Later, Trump’s supporters shouted, “Go home, n--ger.”

That’s the claim by Mercutio Southall, co-founder of the Birmingham, Ala., chapter of Black Lives Matter. Video footage of the incident, which has gone viral, shows white Trump supporters shoving, punching and kicking the black activist in response to Southall’s protest amid a Trump political rally.

Trump—the leading candidate in national polls for the Republican presidential primary—would double down the next day on Fox & Friends and say that Southall deserved to be “roughed up.” Trump’s retort stood in stark contrast with his campaign’s public statement distancing itself from the incident, but it is clear that this is who Donald Trump is: The same candidate had a rally where Latino protesters were kicked and beaten, called Mexicans “rapists,” retweeted racist statistics on crime, and most recently called for barring Muslims from entering the U.S.

At a moment when the nation’s racial crises continue to be headline news, encounters such as these still manage to be stunning. They’re also alienating, placing the GOP at odds with some of the very groups that Republicans hope to win over, including black and Latino voters.

This spectacle of racial, reactionary populism, rhetoric and political protest is not a concept that is new to the theater of American politics. Comparisons abound between Trump and segregationist Democrat George Wallace or, better yet, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

But a nuanced comparison also finds fertile ground in the Republican Party’s 1964 presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, whose brand of right-wing conservatism alienated almost all nonwhite voters from the GOP.