Republicans admit the GOP’s midterm forecast is bleak. But they’re clinging to two hopes: voters’ fear and loathing of Democrats.
“It’s going to be a hate election,” a Republican tied to President Trump’s political operation told Axios. “Voters have to hate the Dems more than they hate us. And we have material to work with.”
Why it matters: There’s broad GOP frustration that Trump has made challenging midterm elections worse by not focusing heavily on pocketbook issues — especially the tax cuts Republicans won — while launching the Iran war, which raised gas prices and fueled inflation.
Trump’s prime-time speech Thursday night about China’s alleged influence campaign targeting U.S. voters six years ago did little to assuage those concerns.
“I have yet to understand how we win the midterms by talking about what happened in 2020,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Axios.
The Republicans’ plan will probably work too. Hate is the opiate of the masses. Some say its religion, but religion is merely a syringe.
Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for the last 20 years?
Or is this admitting Trump’s utter failure with that line “more than they hate us”?
Longer than that. Reagan coined the term “welfare queen”.
Yes but it really kicked into high gear when clutches pearls a half black man won the presidency. Guess I should say 18 years but meh.
Nixon’s aide famously admitted in the 90s that the entire point of the War on Drugs was to go after black people, Jews, and hippies.
The racism on the right is nothing new. It’s been their main form of divide and conquer alongside sexism and anti-LGBT bigotry and fearmongering since the founding of the country (a reminder that the founders compromised with elitists to allow them to keep slaves).
Yes but when a half black man won the highest office in the entire country their heads exploded. There was a real shift at that point. Fox went off their rocker. I’m telling you, that was a changing point.
Barry Goldwater said desegregation was a states rights issue while winking at the KKK as hard as he could