Politico: Team Trump turns to Rove playbook to juice 2018 turnout

[Yank2133]

They think tax reform will get out the vote? Really?

It's social issues that crank out the vote, everyone knows that.

Yup.

The GOP is clueless about what drives their base if this is true. No one outside of the beltway types give a crap about tax reform.

Playing victim and social issues is what drives these people.

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This is obvious to anyone who has paid attention to mid-term elections in this country. At the end of the day, they are driven by the presidents performance. Republicans are fooling themselves if they think hyper partisanship and gerrymandering will protect them from a Trump backlash.

[Yank2133]

They think tax reform will get out the vote? Really?

It's social issues that crank out the vote, everyone knows that.

^This. The kind of republican base voters their talking about don't care about super wonky subjects such as tax reform. They're looking for red meat, aka social issues.

Only problem is that the GOP has no boogeymen left to whip up. Nobody cares about gay marriage anymore, most people want legalized drugs, the bathroom bills are failing - even the GOP in Texas killed their bathroom bill.

It's not 2004 anymore and people are sick and tired of a 40 year old culture war that's been recycling the same issues. My guess is that the GOP will run on ''muh antifa, violent libs'' in 2018 but that probably wont even work since the GOP will fail miserably at legislating anything of substance and the party will descend into an all out civil war by 2018.

The GOP has run its course. Their ideas are on their way out. They have nothing to sell to the public anymore, especially when your president has a 30% approval rating on a good day.

They have one last card to play and that is white grievances.