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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/15/18096899/trump-midterms-arizona-american-greatness
American Greatness is just about the Trumpiest publication you can think of. A publication that aims to flesh out an intellectual defense of the presidents worldview, the site currently features banner ads imploring readers to buy former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorkas new book. It recently published a defense of blackface and a column on why it is impossible to overstate the damage that left-wing Jews are doing to America.
The biggest reason Martha McSally lost is the same reason Republicans lost control of the House, Olsen writes. Across the nation, moderate college-educated independents who had frequently backed Republicans in prior elections switched sides....
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Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)to make America great again.
We vote for Democrats.
Permanut
(5,602 posts)and the ship is sinking.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)that pictures our times.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)McSallys defeat shows just how tenuous the Trump coalitions hold on power is. Trump won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by over two percent of the vote, something that had not been done in nearly 150 years. Trump has not added to that coalition in his first two years as president, and that cost his party control of the House while also preventing them from gaining more than two Senate seats on a highly favorable map.
This argument is consistent with what you hear from most mainstream analysts. Trumps white identity politics and violent rhetoric has accelerated a long-running education divide in American politics: White voters with at least a college degree are becoming more Democratic, and white voters without such degrees are trending Republican. Given that the Republican congressional coalition depends on white college voters, particularly those living in the suburbs, this divide spells trouble for the GOP in both the short and the long run.
As the 2018 House results continue to roll in, with long-time Republican seats in suburban and suburban-rural California falling like dominoes, the damage Trump is doing is becoming impossible to deny. Even some of his biggest fans, the editors of American Greatness, can see the problem enough so that theyre willing to publish a piece outlining it. (Christopher Buskirk, the publications lead editor, apparently lives in Arizona).
Yes, Mr. President: The Democrats are going to win them all, or at least close to it. But it really seems like its your fault.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)The MAGA'S are growing restless.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)The Trumpster's defenders--those with something to lose--are getting cold feet and putting distance between themselves and his toxic spews and hideous policies. All the usual suspects who waved the banners and beat the drums in 2016 are falling silent because Trumpy is bad for business and profits and no one considers the Mad King someone they'd take a bullet for.
I predict this is the start of the Great Unravelling. Justice is agonizingly slow but once the gears of Justice groan into action, they grind everything and everyone to a very fine powder. These people are finally starting to realize the obvious: pull back now or the meat grinder will get you too.
Pass the popcorn!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Did anyone read any of the comments on that american greatness article? These people are deluded. They think trump is the second coming and the only reason any democrat wins anywhere is due to voter fraud. If only McSally had humped donnie more, she would have won. I can't believe I have to share a country with imbeciles like those that commented on that article.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Whew! "MAGA Outlet" refers to "American Greatness" website, NOT to Vox (which I enjoy).
spanone
(135,830 posts)eat it trump