Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
One thing is clear as Republicans convene their national convention this week: This is now President Donald Trump's party. The question is whether it can survive in that form in a country that will grow irreversibly more diverse through the 2020s.
Compared with the 2016 GOP convention, which rippled with unresolved tension and resistance to Trump's rise, the conspicuous absence of dissent at this year's event underscores how the President has stamped the party with his trademark as surely as if it were one of his downtown skyscrapers. The party's choice to skip passing a platform and instead approve a brief statement declaring it will "enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda" testifies to his triumph.
In the process, Trump has imposed a distinctive bet on the GOP. He's increased its reliance on the people and places least touched by -- and most resistant to -- the seismic demographic, cultural and economic changes remaking America, while accelerating the party's retreat in the places, and among the people, that most welcome those changes. Evidence is growing that in November, the GOP could be pushed back further into its strongholds and lose more ground in diverse, growing metropolitan America, even if Trump finds a way to overcome his persistent deficits in national polls to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-coalition-is-narrowing/ar-BB18lC8Z
Compared with the 2016 GOP convention, which rippled with unresolved tension and resistance to Trump's rise, the conspicuous absence of dissent at this year's event underscores how the President has stamped the party with his trademark as surely as if it were one of his downtown skyscrapers. The party's choice to skip passing a platform and instead approve a brief statement declaring it will "enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda" testifies to his triumph.
In the process, Trump has imposed a distinctive bet on the GOP. He's increased its reliance on the people and places least touched by -- and most resistant to -- the seismic demographic, cultural and economic changes remaking America, while accelerating the party's retreat in the places, and among the people, that most welcome those changes. Evidence is growing that in November, the GOP could be pushed back further into its strongholds and lose more ground in diverse, growing metropolitan America, even if Trump finds a way to overcome his persistent deficits in national polls to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-coalition-is-narrowing/ar-BB18lC8Z
