The Republican Party is dying and it is time to pull the plug.
The Dallas Morning News posted an article this Tuesday entitled “The GOP is dying; let’s pull the plug.”
Of particular note is the fact that The Dallas Morning News is a conservative-leaning periodical that has embraced the shift in Texas towards the Republican Party. Indeed, The Dallas Morning News has not endorsed a Democrat for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.
As The Dallas Morning News reports, the GOP released a 100-page autopsy report after the 2012 election in an attempt to identify what went wrong and what steps to take to fix things.
The report stressed the need to reach out to women, minorities, youth and the LGBT community. The report went on to state that the GOP is “continually marginalizing itself, and unless changes are made it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future.”
The report goes on to state that: “Public perception of the Party is at record lows. Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents, and many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country. When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us. At the federal level, much of what Republicans are doing is not working beyond the core constituencies that make up the party.”
Asking the question: “So how’s that new strategy gone for them?” The Dallas Morning News details five areas in which the Republican Party is failing:
- Regarding those youngsters “rolling their eyes,” Trump gets just 9 percent among Americans younger than 30, according to a McClatchy-Marist Poll conducted in early August. That’s lower than Clinton’s 41 percent, and Gary Johnson’s 23 percent and Jill Stein’s 16 percent,
- While the report acknowledged that the GOP needs to get up-to-date on social issues, the party hasn’t. Instead, the GOP put together one of the most anti-LGBTQ platforms in history.
- The GOP knew it struggled with female voters after Romney lost that demographic by 12 points in 2012, according to Gallup. So now the party has nominated Trump, a sexist who, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on August 7, is 23 points behind Clinton with women.
- In 2012, Romney won 5 percent of the African-American vote, according to Gallup, which the GOP knew was bad. Now, Trump, who has the support of former KKK leader David Duke, is making it even worse. In some states, he is literally getting 0 percent of the black vote, according to a NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Marist poll released in July. Zero percent.
- When Romney won only 27 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, the GOP knew that was an issue, too. In the report, tea party leader Dick Armey explained: “You can’t call someone ugly and expect them to go to the prom with you. We’ve chased the Hispanic voter out of his natural home.” The party admitted that before nominating a man who has characterized immigrants as “criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.“
Noting that: “Trump will likely be crushed in November,” The Dallas Morning News concludes by stating that “this isn’t about the next four years. It’s about the next four decades.” That maybe it’s time for the GOP to face reality and let the party die in its current incarnation faced with the prospect of the changing demographics in America (“non-Anglo populations already account for more than 90 percent of population growth, according to Brookings Institution demographer William Frey,” and The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2043, non-Hispanic whites will no longer be a majority of America’s population).
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