The problem is, A LOT of the other Republicans seriously DO hate minorities. That's why they are in the party to begin with. If Republicans like him DO manage to attract new types of constituents, the old types, the types his father attracted will leave. So in the end, it won't be much of a net gain or loss.
That's an interesting hypothesis you present. We KNOW that Democrats lose about 1% of white voters every election. Democrats are now down to 39% white support. So for whites to be abandoning the Democrats because they're racists implies that the Democrats were chock full of racists for all those years before they decided to leave. Now why would they leave the Democrats though, the party which was their home through the 80s and 90s and 00s?
The reason they leave is that they realize that the Democrats actually do implement race-based policies and that these policies actually harm white people. For them to say in the Democratic Party is like a woman deciding to stay with a man who regularly sends her to the hospital due to physical abuse. It's just not smart for them to stay in a party intent on hurting them.
OTH, when ever you see a minority spokesperson in the Republican party, they don't seem to play the same divisive game. They don't talk about politics of race, or of victimization. They really do seem like the type of people that the younger generation can look up to. Mostly. That Supreme Court Justice is kind of a prick, but oh well misogyny and arrogance is common to both parties. Power breeds corruption and you take the good with the bad. lol
That's because the Republicans don't have any race-based policies. They're a party of ideas, not identities. They're anti-racist and race-neutral, unlike the Democrats.
You very well could be right.
It was much to my surprise to learn that cultsmasher is actually a liberal on most issues. OTH Steve_McGarrett is clearly conservative on most issues, so this is not a clear cut issue.
Generally, when we are talking about racism today, I think the issue that the globalists will try to link it most tightly too is xenophobia, don't you? Never mind that most Americans are more concerned with national security and economic security, the globalists don't care much about the people of this nation, they only care about destroying the Constitution and the national character of the country. So the best way to attack your character when you oppose any sort of amnesty or control of immigration is to call you a racist. Globalists just want to drive the wage down in all nations, they also want to force regulations (or locally agreed upon community standards) out of all nations.
Global trade pacts will do that. They destroy the ability of citizens to have control over their own local governments and local affairs, giving corporations more power over local and national governments, in the process, enslaving whole populations. We've seen this with NAFTA (driving jobs away to the lowest, dirtiest, cheapest, common denominator), and we'll see more of that with the
TPP and the TTIP.
IOW, since the part of the Nation that is most likely going to fight illegal immigration is going to be in the Republican party, that is where most of the bigots are currently going to hide. Though, to be honest, I have to be skeptical of that. It seems that corporate globalists have taken over BOTH parties, and true patriotic Americans KNOW this. It really doesn't matter what they do. The global world order is going to destroy the nation either way. If Americans try to stop them, they'll all be labeled racists. Even if they are black, brown, purple or green. That's the globalist strategy for combating folks that want to defend the integrity of their nation, it works the same whether in the US or in Europe. You're a bad person for wanting to maintain national security and economic opportunity for your community, so they call you a racist. When in reality, they don't give a damn about poor people wanting to immigrate, they just want to destroy all democratically agreed on community standards everywhere and pit man against woman, parent against child and have a nameless bureaucracy take over divine rights of people every where.
