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Donald Trump's losing baby boomers, silent generation to Kamala Harris
(www.newsweek.com)
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It's remarkable how much the Demographic landscape has shifted since like 2012. Boomers are no longer the biggest generation; that was probably accelerated quite a bit by coronavirus.
Ultimately, with more diversity and the death of boomers the Democratic path to victory — despite the electoral college — requires only that Democrats energize their own core base and pull over some Independents with contagious enthusiasm. No compromise needed with the likes of far-right Republican extremism. Their platform is largely irrelevant and deeply unpopular.
I think the newer generations growing up with this utter garbage platform of the GOP will really hurt their electability in a few years to the next few decades as the younger generations reach voting age
Definitely! You may recall that Republicans performed an "Autopsy report" following their 2012 losses and concluded that they would need to moderate their platform and appeal to minorities in greater numbers. But instead, the party went the exact opposite way and hitched a ride with right-wing extremism under Trump. In the short-term they road high off enthusiasm of bigots and the ignorant... But that can only be sustained for so long. Now they've forked themselves between catering to racist sexist bigots versus moving back to the center. The problem is the more they shift in one direction, the more the other group abandons them.
Ultimately Democrats adopted any noteworthy substantive policy that Republicans once had, so it's a dying party lashing out like a rat in a corner.
And if it wasn't for the Electoral College, the Citizens United decision, and Gerrymandering, the party would've been relegated to History next to the Whigs long ago.
Right. Republicans also had/have not just thr road high, but really SUPER effective propaganda and funding/bribery machines in place, and just killing it on the gerrymandering and voter suppression fronts. And with things like the senate and electoral college numbers leaning their favor.
(Democrats of course do to some extent too, but it's like comparing a 1930s Chicago mob to some neighborhood teenage gang)
That stuff is just continuing to get worse. And needs addressed.
I'm expecting the "dirty tricks" of 2020 to pale on comparison to 2024.