The GOP narrative for the next four years is going to be "blacks and browns voted democrat because they want free stuff". This will sell books, increase tv viewership and radio listenership but it will not translate into votes, nor will it make any inroads into these communities. And I suspect I'm not the only person who realizes this. And that begs the question: are movement conservatives more concerned with saying and writing the types of comments that rally their dwindling base than they are with winning elections?
Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny?
Conventional wisdom in the Republican establishment is that what the GOP needs to do, in order to win black votes or Hispanic votes, is to craft policies specifically targeting these groups. In other words, Republicans need to become more like Democrats.
Whether in a racial context or in other contexts, the...
If it didn't work the first time, keep doing it over and over and over.