GOP voters bleeding out was a demographic inevitably. That's part of the reason why Dems were so triumphant in 2016 and dismissed the possibility of a Trump presiency. Trump was a "retreat to move forward" in that respect - someone who's odious to the vast majority of voters but also helps shake up a stale brand who's constituency is literally dying out.
The GOP is sacrificing some elections they could have won now in exchange for rebranding in a way that will theoretically help them in the future (based Chads who want to RETVRN to Latin Mass, ban single mothers, and eliminate taxes on cryptocurrency). There's going to be a lot of short-term pain as older and middle aged moderates are turned off, but very soon we're gonna be in a situation where the GOP is increasingly the "youthful" party while the Dems get more and more necrotic.
Those demographics you mentioned, traditional Catholics and crypto weirdos, are those actual plays the GOP is trying to do or are they just representative of splintering segments of who they should try to appeal to? I'm not sure the general population gives a shit about mandatory church or cyrpto, nor do those things even enter their consciousness. If the Republicans are recoordinating for different demographics, I'd love to read about it. I know for a while they've tried to claim to be more racially diverse, but that hasn't gone anywhere.
You're absolutely right though, the Republican boomer types do not have long to live and are actively chasing lifestyles and policies that kill them.
They were joke caricatures that I came up with that represent the general trend that the American Right is moving towards - a lot more internet culture, a lot of influence from the European Right and a more isolationist outlook. Think Barry Goldwater mixed with Generation Identitaire as opposed to the evangelical Neocons or the Rockefeller Republicans.
I guess I'm struggling to see what a right-wing in the US will look like without the hokey Reagnites. Whatever that's called has been the dominant branding of Republican values for over 40 years now. The whole constitution loving, go back to the 1950s, small business, anti-socialist, suburban whites who like low property taxes and go to a protestant megachurch on Sunday followed by a trip to Golden Corral. That's who their social base is.
I know in my heart it's all run by the lizard monster businessmen ruling class who do not give a single shit about what moral vision they supposedly promote, which is why I know they can change their tune instantly. I can only see the Republicans changing their demographics as far out as 2050, when the last of the boomers finally are gone.
I see a gradual shift, which is usually how these things occur. The hokey Reaganites won't be banished or anything, they'll just have less and less influence as time goes on and they literally fall away. These people are a shrinking share of the population.
Younger Millennials and Zoomers aren't living that life, in large part because they haven't had the same economic opportunities. Unless you think the USA is going to be on the rebound, the Megachurch class will wither away pretty soon. If Republicans are smart, they're building a contingency plan with the young fringe types.
GOP voters bleeding out was a demographic inevitably. That's part of the reason why Dems were so triumphant in 2016 and dismissed the possibility of a Trump presiency. Trump was a "retreat to move forward" in that respect - someone who's odious to the vast majority of voters but also helps shake up a stale brand who's constituency is literally dying out.
The GOP is sacrificing some elections they could have won now in exchange for rebranding in a way that will theoretically help them in the future (based Chads who want to RETVRN to Latin Mass, ban single mothers, and eliminate taxes on cryptocurrency). There's going to be a lot of short-term pain as older and middle aged moderates are turned off, but very soon we're gonna be in a situation where the GOP is increasingly the "youthful" party while the Dems get more and more necrotic.
Those demographics you mentioned, traditional Catholics and crypto weirdos, are those actual plays the GOP is trying to do or are they just representative of splintering segments of who they should try to appeal to? I'm not sure the general population gives a shit about mandatory church or cyrpto, nor do those things even enter their consciousness. If the Republicans are recoordinating for different demographics, I'd love to read about it. I know for a while they've tried to claim to be more racially diverse, but that hasn't gone anywhere.
You're absolutely right though, the Republican boomer types do not have long to live and are actively chasing lifestyles and policies that kill them.
They were joke caricatures that I came up with that represent the general trend that the American Right is moving towards - a lot more internet culture, a lot of influence from the European Right and a more isolationist outlook. Think Barry Goldwater mixed with Generation Identitaire as opposed to the evangelical Neocons or the Rockefeller Republicans.
I guess I'm struggling to see what a right-wing in the US will look like without the hokey Reagnites. Whatever that's called has been the dominant branding of Republican values for over 40 years now. The whole constitution loving, go back to the 1950s, small business, anti-socialist, suburban whites who like low property taxes and go to a protestant megachurch on Sunday followed by a trip to Golden Corral. That's who their social base is.
I know in my heart it's all run by the lizard monster businessmen ruling class who do not give a single shit about what moral vision they supposedly promote, which is why I know they can change their tune instantly. I can only see the Republicans changing their demographics as far out as 2050, when the last of the boomers finally are gone.
I see a gradual shift, which is usually how these things occur. The hokey Reaganites won't be banished or anything, they'll just have less and less influence as time goes on and they literally fall away. These people are a shrinking share of the population.
Younger Millennials and Zoomers aren't living that life, in large part because they haven't had the same economic opportunities. Unless you think the USA is going to be on the rebound, the Megachurch class will wither away pretty soon. If Republicans are smart, they're building a contingency plan with the young fringe types.