Future of the Republican party?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Some sort of attempt to incorporate the marginalized into a broader definition of "American" so as to prevent further attempts to popularize identity politics. Let the Democrats have a rainbow coalition, the GOP will champion a broad belt of gray.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Why shouldn't we back down on the death penalty?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

One thing that must be remembered, at least from a detached perspective, is the ability for the average white m ale to feel alienation and disgust. While it might be expressed differently by the 27-year old demolition foreman and the 22-year old pre law student you bum cigs from outside the liberal arts building, in many ways it's the same dissatisfaction. On a college campus, from people in all colleges (except maybe UDM's School of Architecture), you're going to be able to hear the same sentiment. Even those from relatively well off families still know that there's "something" above them, and in many cases below them, to view as an antagonistic force. Many here on the forum ironically support Donald Trump, but there are people from Romney voter backgrounds talking about how Trump calls it like it is. A friend of mine who's a doctoral student right now and probably one of the smartest people I've ever met (in terms of measuring it metrically; he managed to pull off the "alcoholic 4.0 biology student who also works" gig) who is probably 55% liberal, thinks we have a serious population problem, and wanted to get a tattoo of the American Atheist Society symbol on his forearm who was a Romney voter. No idea if this is a widespread phenomenon, but at least among white male college students, there are a number of either right-wing or perceptibly right-wing viewpoints whose common source is frustration and alienation that the GOP may be able to exploit. If they're smart enough. And the Republican Party administration has not shown that they are smart enough to pull this off yet.