Becky

This poll should be a death sentence for the entire GOP consultant class. For decades, these idiots have insisted that the secret to winning elections is to ignore the people who actually vote Republican and desperately chase the approval of those who despise them. White Americans are the only major racial demographic that consistently votes majority Republican, yet you’d never know it from how readily the GOP dismisses their concerns about immigration, jobs, crime, national defense, and wages. And the millions of non-White Americans, of every background, who also voted for those same promises are still waiting for results too. Republicans don’t have a MESSAGING problem. They have a GOVERNANCE problem. And your brilliant solution is to MODERATE for a “broader coalition”? You haven’t even delivered for the coalition that elected you! Instead of asking how to win over people who hate you, maybe start by asking why the people who trusted you have so little to show for it. We don’t want another rally, another fundraising text message, or another lecture about how terrible Democrats are. We want you to actually deliver on the promises we elected you to fulfill. You don’t energize your base by demanding it clap louder while you turn your back on everything it voted for. We didn’t elect you so we could spend the next four years fighting to save YOUR jobs. We elected you to fight for OURS.

Respectfully, Dinesh, the fact that Republicans can no longer rely on a majority of White voters is an indictment of decades of poor Republican governance, not some immutable demographic reality. We spent decades alienating the very Americans who built and sustained this party through outsourcing, mass immigration, stagnant wages, and the destruction of their economic prospects. Now we’re told the solution is to abandon them further and assemble a patchwork of competing ethnic constituencies? What would Bob and his son say about this? I can welcome Americans of any background if they truly share our interests and values. But a party that must continually bargain with foreign ethnic interest groups at the expense of its own principles isn’t building a coalition. It’s conducting a hostage negotiation. Why is winning back the White working and middle classes treated as an impossibility rather than the obvious first order of business? Why is catering to the only people who actually vote Republican have to carry a massive asterisk that YOUR co-ethnics must approve it first? We don’t have a demographic problem we cannot solve. We have a governance problem we refuse to fix.