I don't see it looking to good for the GOP either.
Correct.
I can tell you, from my own experience in my own family and extended family, minorities have been conditioned over the last 2+ generations to being "sold" to. Obviously the Democrats have done this, and the Republicans have to decide if they're going to give in and play the same cynical, dishonest game.
I get it - it's not right to divide Americans into ethnic (and other) groups as the Dems have, but facts are facts. As long as the GOP tries to be above that game and treat all Americans as Americans, it will lag behind the Dems, significantly. The LEAST it should be doing is looking for a way to do it less blatantly than the Dems, but I don't even see
that.
So this is a decision the GOP has to make. Neither direction is terribly attractive, I'm sure.
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