Republicans Will Have to Reinvent Themselves, and They Don’t Like That

What soon-to-be-convicted sex trafficker Matt Gaetz says here is precisely what my mom believes, i.e., that encouraging people to vote, combined with voter fraud and open borders, gives a huge and permanent advantage to Democrats.

In reality, though significant voter fraud doesn’t exist and the borders aren’t open, encouraging everyone to vote actually does offer an advantage to the Democrats, because it is they who want to fashion government such that it provides real value to the common American.

If the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 passes, it will force the Republicans to return to where they had been in the past, e.g., the Ronald Reagan days of the 1980s.

The reason that Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in a landslide (489 – 49 electoral votes, by  a popular margin of 9.7%) is that voters believed in the overall platform of personal accountability, strong military, limited government, and trickle-down economics.

Now, one can debate the merit of this platform, but what matters is that voters believed that the GOP had something to offer them.

What does it have now, other than Trump, his criminal attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, and the congressional lackeys who still support him?   Sure, we can throw in the anti-science rhetoric surrounding climate change mitigation and the response to COVID.  But what all this has in common is a massive appeal to stupidity, which is what makes Trump a toss-up to win a second term in 2024.