You're missing the point. Trump doing worse among minority voters does not mean Trump is killing the GOP's chances among minority voters. The GOP killed the GOP's chances among minority voters, and aren't seriously making any effort to change that. You can't blame Trump for GOP strategy.
Nor can you really blame Trump for a Western-world wide trend. Republicans doing poorly among ethnic minority voters is not surprising given the history of the US or the history of the Western world. You might as well blame Gorbachev for Communism's failure. It's not Gorbachev's fault that Communism can't create Silicon Valley. That's just in the nature of Communism.
Obviously the GOP can do better within certain groups, but there's a lot of picking and choosing. Your Ukraine article proves the point exactly: you can't attract Ukrainian votes if you look cozy to Russia, since, you know, Russia is occupying Ukraine. You can't attract Cuban votes being soft on Castro. You can't attract Asian votes being soft on Communism.
Here's the CDU in Germany, over the moon excited because they got 31% of the Turkish vote: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/02e13d64-1...#axzz4Jt5FxA8W Which they had to get by supporting Turkish accession, which is stupid because Turkey is not an advanced democracy (see: coup)
Again, right above, the Tories were over the Moon excited about 35% minority vote.
So by all means you can say it's easy to woo minority voters, but, no, it's actually pretty damn hard and takes an immense amount of work. It's actually just as hard for left-wing parties, but their difficulty is getting them to turn up to vote. This is not easy stuff, and entire teams of people with a lot more money, knowledge, time, and energy than either you or I do have a hard time making this work.
Now I think it's actually easy to get these groups to both vote more AND moderate over time. You have a strong culture that demands but also encourages assimilation, you have a strong economy that generates well-paying jobs, you have a housing market that lets people have nice single-family detached homes with white picket fences, and you have a decent public school system. Somehow this magic system seems to turn out good citizens that both vote more and vote more moderately.
The hard part there is it cuts into someone's profit margins, and we just can't have that, can we?
Nor can you really blame Trump for a Western-world wide trend. Republicans doing poorly among ethnic minority voters is not surprising given the history of the US or the history of the Western world. You might as well blame Gorbachev for Communism's failure. It's not Gorbachev's fault that Communism can't create Silicon Valley. That's just in the nature of Communism.
Obviously the GOP can do better within certain groups, but there's a lot of picking and choosing. Your Ukraine article proves the point exactly: you can't attract Ukrainian votes if you look cozy to Russia, since, you know, Russia is occupying Ukraine. You can't attract Cuban votes being soft on Castro. You can't attract Asian votes being soft on Communism.
Here's the CDU in Germany, over the moon excited because they got 31% of the Turkish vote: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/02e13d64-1...#axzz4Jt5FxA8W Which they had to get by supporting Turkish accession, which is stupid because Turkey is not an advanced democracy (see: coup)
Again, right above, the Tories were over the Moon excited about 35% minority vote.
So by all means you can say it's easy to woo minority voters, but, no, it's actually pretty damn hard and takes an immense amount of work. It's actually just as hard for left-wing parties, but their difficulty is getting them to turn up to vote. This is not easy stuff, and entire teams of people with a lot more money, knowledge, time, and energy than either you or I do have a hard time making this work.
Now I think it's actually easy to get these groups to both vote more AND moderate over time. You have a strong culture that demands but also encourages assimilation, you have a strong economy that generates well-paying jobs, you have a housing market that lets people have nice single-family detached homes with white picket fences, and you have a decent public school system. Somehow this magic system seems to turn out good citizens that both vote more and vote more moderately.
The hard part there is it cuts into someone's profit margins, and we just can't have that, can we?
Comment