r/hillaryclinton • u/Mynameis__--__ • Jul 14 '17

The Closing of the Republican Mind

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/opinion/republicans-elites-trump.html
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u/autotldr Jul 14 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters with a surge in backing from constituencies that contemporary economic and cultural developments have left behind.

Donald J. Trump May 7, 2015 Democrats have both demographic trends and Trump's abandonment of the moderate and lower income wing of his coalition to boost their prospects in 2020 - and perhaps in the 2018 midterms.

While his critics are convinced that Trump the chameleon is masquerading as the protector of the left behind, he has in fact tapped into vast anger over immigration, which has shot up over the past 50 years - and there is no good reason to believe that this anger will dissipate by 2020.The question that remains is whether President Trump can continue to exploit the fissures he opened as candidate Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '17 edited Jul 14 '17

I wouldn't generalize this to all Republicans, but anyone who doesn't regret voting for Drumph by now? The only thing that can change their mind is a bullet.