[WHERE'S THE GOP HEADED?] The Republican Balancing Act

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 5:48pm |

Seems like if elections after Trump's are any indication (VA-GOV, TX-34, probably a bunch of places in the coming midterms) there are Republicans capable of meeting or exceeding Trump's gains with Latinos and Asians and not losing quite so many suburban voters. https://t.co/qEOffqn2rA
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 10, 2022

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-republican-balancing-act/

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note added tweet by Jilani:

If Ron DeSantis walks away +10 or something in Florida, he's going to point to his Latino margins and say that makes the case for him -- Biden wouldn't be able to win the election if DeSantis replicated those gains in many states nationwide.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 10, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 5:50pm

dupe deleted and edited in instead yet another tweet by Jilani:

I agree, the Florida/Texas political environment is very different than say California. That being said there was evidence of Latino shift in many different parts of the country in the past couple years' worth of elections. https://t.co/lEiuUbmJt9
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 10, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 5:56pm

Kristol's camp is actually losing on all of these fronts in both parties -- Trump renegotiated NAFTA with Democratic support and Biden for most part kept all his other trade policies re: China, Biden pulled out of Afghanistan and nobody is saying to go back. https://t.co/hSFgh56Wgo
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 11, 2022

I don't know who Kristol is arguing *to* either because neoconservatism doesn't have a voting base anymore.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 11, 2022

Not sure what politics holds for the future, but I don't think we're going to see a return to 2000-2008 type politics any time soon.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 11, 2022

The main reason why is because America is more inward looking now, back then the foreign threat Kristol emphasized (some would argue created) was motivating the bulk of American politics. Today we have Russia but it's nothing like invading occupying countries with 100,000+ troops
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 11, 2022

This is largely true from a political standpoint but what people like you fail to acknowledge is that these policies Trump put in including renegotiating NAFTA and putting in tariffs were at best neutral in effect and in many cases net negatives.
— Michstfr (@Michstfr1) October 11, 2022

Also by acknowledging that Ds have embraced his economic Nationalism you are admitting Rs adopted the same bad economic policies only now dressed up as conservative. Regardless of what Bill is saying.
— Michstfr (@Michstfr1) October 11, 2022

NAFTA changes were mostly cosmetic, fitting, given technological changes mean certain industrial jobs are not coming back en masse. Trump takes the sabre with multiple countries, including Iran and China, he even shocked advisors by opting to assassinate a leading Iranian.
— Oliver Cash (@OliverCash9) October 11, 2022

Trump was less hawkish than Obama who was less hawkish than Bush and Biden is less hawkish than all of them. NAFTA changes were not cosmetic they were meaningful which is why labor and Dems were onboard, they weren't exactly eager to give Trump a W.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 11, 2022

How was Obama less hawkish than Bush 43?
— Christopher (@CJArndt) October 11, 2022

Again, Biden has kept most of Trump's policies popular with WWC although the trade polices by Trump/Biden are still .001% impact here. The renegotiation on NAFTA was fine but VERY limited changes there and Trump's China negotiation were terrible.
— Collin Reid (@CREID2852) October 11, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 3:37pm

Vote no, then take the dough. https://t.co/RJbiuw3Mzc
— Jim Himes (@jahimes) October 15, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/15/2022 - 4:56pm

impressive spiel:

Evan McMullin on Mike Lee: "He sits on his hands until it's time to vote no, and then he goes and complains about our country on cable news." pic.twitter.com/KvLs231Pvn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2022

Jennifer Rubin is excited about the potential there:

A McMullin victory would constitute a tsunami in electoral politics, challenging Trump’s grip on the party and requiring a new calculation for Republicans. https://t.co/H6ww0uN2EB
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 16, 2022

Yglesias doing his usual polite "half a loaf is better than none" shutup to lefties:

Kyrsten Sinema is way better than Mike Lee! https://t.co/GFXHfqC3PM
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 16, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/17/2022 - 2:32am

[WHERE'S THE GOP HEADED?] The Republican Balancing Act

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