You’re right, of course. There’s no way someone like Trump could win the Republican Party nomination if the Republican Party gave two hoots about issues important to social conservatives.
Well, the problem is that once again many those principled social conservatives were the ones who left their principles behind to some extent to save the country as it were.
Really, I don’t see how one saves a country by preserving cultural rot while balancing a budget. As Jason Lewis notes “social liberalism begets fiscal liberalism”.
I think there’s just too many people out there on both sides of the aisle who don’t vote their values. And for all the flack that Rove and some of the other pollsters got in 2012 and 2014, fundamentally, they know whats going on.
For instance, a blue collar white union worker in Carbondale or an African-American Muslim in Chicago may call up Senator A and tell him not to vote for so-called gay “marriage”. Senator A will then sweat, call his pollster and say “man, I’ve got all these calls, I better figure this out”. So they run a poll and find out that at end of all things, when the word “republican” shows up on the ballot, a 10-second emotional response is elicited in the voter and they vote Democrat. So basically, the message is “do whatever you want, because they’ll vote you in anyways.”
And then people sit around for the next three years of their life writing me messages saying “why, I can’t believe that a politician I voted for whose party platform said they support this actually passed legislation supporting it” or “I can’t believe that by supporting big government that the government is now turning on my Church and telling it what to do. It wasn’t like this in 1928 when my great-grandfather voted”.
These are the voters who are sinking America.
candidate while they didn’t) and is a rich, old, straight, white, able-bodied idealist male from the egalitarian circles of the northeast.