re: I hate identity politics. But some how Republicans need to expand their base

Here's something to chew on;

My hometown of 5000 people, in rural WI, voted for radical dem Mandela Barnes over Ron Johnson.

Not by a lot, but a few hundred votes. The county overall went red, but the main "city" of 5k went blue.

We need to figure out exactly why. These people are not the sort you would expect to vote that way when talking to them.

*I do know one thing that is hurting the GOP. Religion is on the downswing, including in my hometown.

Democrats only have identity politics... ya won't beat them in that field. Unless ya use an identity Democrats shun. White people. Actively pander to white people. Like someone else in this thread said, there are a helluva lot of white people who don't vote.

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The only reason we are even having a discussion right now is because of what Reagan did for the party in 1979-1980, and then again in 1984. The republican party was dead for all intents and purposes

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That doesn't change anything about the amnesty bill completely fricking this country into perpetuity. For as great as Reagan was, he really, really, really fricked up with that one.

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Actively pander to white people.

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And how do you do that with out sounding racist?

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We need to figure out exactly why. These people are not the sort you would expect to vote that way when talking to them.

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Can you name three policies that Republicans ran on during this cycle that were aimed at reducing inflation, helping the economy or doing anything else that is specifically designed to make life better for Americans?

Democrats ran on combating the erosion of individual rights of Americans to self-determination against government interference (abortion-voting rights)

Democrats ran on their "inflation reduction act,"

Democrats were trying to push fuel prices down through release of some strategic reserves and increased oil and gas production

While you may find these to be futile gestures, at least they were trying to use policy to do something

What did Republicans actually propose?

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Democrats ran on combating the erosion of individual rights of Americans to self-determination against government interference (abortion-voting rights)

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Solution looking for a problem

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Democrats ran on their "inflation reduction act,"

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The Inflation Reduction Act that's actually going to make inflation worse? Calling that bill the Inflation reduction Act would be the same as banning all electric cars and calling it the Emissions Reduction Act

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Democrats were trying to push fuel prices down through release of some strategic reserves and increased oil and gas production

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For the election. Everything else the Biden administration has done since taking over has been an attack on oil/gas

Great policies

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The republican establishment has zero interest in expanding the base

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Jesse Kelly has said that Democrats fear their base and Republicans hate theirs. RINOs don't want to do anything to get themselves excluded from the DC cocktail parties.

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For the election. Everything else the Biden administration has done since taking over has been an attack on oil/gas

Great policies

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TBoy said

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Can you name three policies that Republicans ran on during this cycle that were aimed at reducing inflation, helping the economy or doing anything else that is specifically designed to make life better for Americans?

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It’s not about great policies or real solution’s it’s saying what you need to say to get elected. I think Republicans got lazy and mainly ran against people and policies.

What the Democrats run on can be complete bullshite and people will believe in it. People want to be optimistic and believe in solutions even if they don’t understand what they hear.

Most of the Republicans ran on Pelosi, border, inflation, economy, and gas. The problem is you didn’t hear a lot of solutions from candidates. Almost all Republicans in blue and purple area’s also had to run from abortion and January 6th.

That is probably a few things that prevented a red wave

I think that is what TBoy might have been trying to say.

DeSantis runs on solutions and that is one of the reasons he is so popular

2020 Democrats ran against Trump and the only reason it worked was because so many people hated him. It was because of some of his policies, but most of it was they didn’t like the man. They saw him as a lying bully that sent mean tweets and made fun of people.

White non Hispanic is only 52% of the country and we are 50% of that.

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Like it or not, the Romneys of the world

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Funny you say this, I abstained from voting because Romney sucked and so did Obama.

Trump got me and millions back.

Y’all don’t want to believe this, but the Republican Party was dead and they kept trotting out losers. And bush didn’t help with lying to get us into war.