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by Spooky23
3162 days ago
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Trump != GOP. He is a game show host and parasite. The base voters who show up are people who value specific issues like abortion, taxes, guns, etc and a red line that cannot be crossed. Compare that message to the gotv efforts for democratic candidates. They’ll target ethnic voters, women, unions, lgbt, etc with messages specific to them. Depending on where they are, Democrats will stay silent on abortion or guns. It’s a big reason why voter suppression is such a priority for the GOP. When there aren’t enough old white people, it’s expensive and difficult to convince gays or African Americans to flip. I live in a very democratic state, and my little city probably has 30 polling places open from 6am to 9pm on Election Day with hardly any wait time. |
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Some tropes:
* "Real" rural Americans vs city dwellers
* Oppressed Christians vs atheists and Muslims (despite both being a tiny minority nationally vs the majority Christians)
* blacks and Hispanics vs their majority white base
* College educated vs uneducated (somehow ignoring the party elite and backers frequently have elite educations)
* Gun owners vs everyone else
I cynically believe many people, including the GOP national leadership, realize these are much more manufactured than oppression faced by actual opressed minority groups. But stirring up culture wars provides a great smoke screen for their agenda while fracturing socially or racially what would otherwise be natural opposition to their policies among class lines.
See: GOP rallying the rural poor and elderly against ACA, despite the two groups being some of the biggest groups on Medicare/caid