Nation article on GOP troubles

[scottditzen]

While there's much I do not agree with here, the overall premise is dead on imho. There is no candidate alive today who is capable of uniting the Republican Party AND able to attract enough independent and Democrat votes to win a presidential election.

Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump—the fear that he might actually become the GOP nominee—is the ultimate nightmare. Some gleeful Democrats are rooting (sotto voce) for the Donald, though many expect he will self-destruct.

Nevertheless, Republicans face a larger problem. The GOP finds itself trapped in a marriage that has not only gone bad but is coming apart in full public view. After five decades of shrewd strategy, the Republican coalition Richard Nixon put together in 1968—welcoming the segregationist white South into the Party of Lincoln—is now devouring itself in ugly, spiteful recriminations.

http://www.thenation.com/article/wh...final-unraveling-of-nixons-southern-strategy/

 

[Crashland]

I would be very happy watching Trump cause the GOP to crumble to pieces if it weren't for the consequences it's going to have on our country.

 

[Rad]

They will always have Israel and the threat of this intentionally vague critter they made up called "radical Islam" to keep the village idiots in line. Hillary or Trump for president is not much of a choice is it? Trump at least will give them all heart burn. The dixiecrats aren't going to run back to momma (Democrat party). The reason why they left still remains.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Nevertheless, Republicans face a larger problem. The GOP finds itself trapped in a marriage that has not only gone bad but is coming apart in full public view. After five decades of shrewd strategy, the Republican coalition Richard Nixon put together in 1968—welcoming the segregationist white South into the Party of Lincoln—is now devouring itself in ugly, spiteful recriminations.

In other words, the hack liberals at the Nation are still drinking their own self-serving, wholesale kool-aid about the GOP being the party of racists. They think they lost the White House twice to Nixon, twice to Reagan, thrice to two different Bushes, and lost control of Congress twice in the last five decades over the southern strategy. It had *nothing* to do with the explosion of the welfare state, budget busting deficits, imposing the new morality and PC regime on the country through media bombardment and judicial fiat, etc, etc. Yeah, right.

 

[RonPaulMall]

Trump has exposed the Left's greatest nightmare- a candidate that has the ability to bring white Northerners back in to the Republican Party. If that ever happens, the Dems are finished at the national level. Trump's many personal flaws may prevent him from actually being able to do it, but he's shown the way, and that absolutely terrifies them. There is also probably a bit of existential angst going on here too, as surely the folks at The Nation must realize that there is going to be no place for magazines like "The Nation" in the Islamic, Minority, and Third World dominated party that The Nation has been pushing the Democrats to become. They've made a suicide pact. Even if they win, they die.

 

[scottditzen]

In other words, the hack liberals at the Nation are still drinking their own self-serving, wholesale kool-aid about the GOP being the party of racists. They think they lost the White House twice to Nixon, twice to Reagan, thrice to two different Bushes, and lost control of Congress twice in the last five decades over the southern strategy. It had *nothing* to do with the explosion of the welfare state, budget busting deficits, imposing the new morality and PC regime on the country through media bombardment and judicial fiat, etc, etc. Yeah, right.

Of course nobody here buys that being anti-affirmative action equals racist. It's definitely the weak point to their argument.