Conservatives here: Imagine for a moment what it would be like if Republicans got into office the classic way - by developing vision and implementing it with policies that would actually make most voters want to vote for them. Instead of just pandering to a donor base and figuring out ways to keep other people from voting at all - or making sure their votes don't count.
Interesting take except for the fact that pandering to the base was exactly what the Hillary campaign was all about.
As a result she lost 99 electoral votes that were won by Obama, many of those votes in states she hardly campaigned in.
Focus.
I did.
Especially on the comment that Imagine for a moment what it would be like if Republicans got into office the classic way - by developing vision and implementing it with policies that would actually make most voters want to vote for them.
Trump flipped 6 states from 2012 and won in areas Hillary largely ignored especially those containing blue collar workers
who were impressed by GOP promises that have put people back to work, increased wages and
bolstered the economy.
Couldn't be more wrong. Ignoring for a second that Trump's campaign was centered around an anti-immigration agenda, not an economic one, Trump ran as a "populist," a different kind of Republican. He was amenable to raising taxes on the rich, promised not to touch Medicare and Social Security, and said that he would implement a health insurance plan that insured "everyone."
Of course as President, he did the exact opposite on every point.
LOL
Trump's election bolsters Oilboyd's point, doesn't dispute it. Trump is a con man, and conned voters by lying to them (about the above issues, and others.)
Why can't Republicans win elections without lying about their policy plans, and the intentions of those plans? The question stands. With Trump as Exhibit A (as opposed to Individual 1)
Again, REDSTATEWARD has no substantive response.
Exhibit B, by the way, are the mid-term elections. Republicans lied about their being for protections for people with preexisting conditions, some of them straight up lied about their vote on Obamacare.
And Trump, a week before the elections, started talking about a
middle class tax cut at his rallies, and even raised the possibility of raising taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for it:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/trump-says-he-s-open-to-raising-tax-to-pay-for-middle-class-cutAll lies. That middle class tax cut went the way of the $1 trillion infrastructure plan (itself yet another promise that fooled blue collar voters) up in smoke once the election was over.
Why do Republicans need to lie to (try to) get elected?
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