President Trump’s greatest achievement within the Republican Party has been to expand its base to the working class. Conventional wisdom as been turned upside down. It used to be the GOP was seen as the political party of the country club set. Not any longer.
Not that I have any problem with the country club set. I just realize you need more than gin and tonics to win national elections. Pity. The Democrats are now the party of the whining effete set. We need to keep it this way, as there are a lot more working Americans than there are human purse dogs.
Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, gets this, “President Trump’s decisive election victory in my home state of Florida offers an important lesson for Republicans nationwide: If we show voters that Republicans are the party of working-class Americans, a party that reaches out to people of all races and creeds, and a party that fights for equal opportunity for all we will win in future elections. For years, Democrats and pollsters have wrongly predicted Democratic wins in the Sunshine State, including in my successful races for governor and the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket. The Democrats and pollsters forgot why people choose to live in Florida, which is now the third-most-populous state in America, after California and Texas.” The senator also loves his country.
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Scott: “People are moving to and staying in Florida because they want low taxes and small government. They want to escape socialism, to raise strong families and to send their kids to good schools. They want to work hard and be entrepreneurial, and they want to be able to forge a future for themselves and their families. Too many Floridians are familiar with the language of equality of outcomes, and they know that it leaves everyone equally poor. They have heard the empty promises of the late communist leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba. And more importantly, Floridians have seen the violence and authoritarianism that too often follows those empty promises.
“People — including many fleeing communism and socialism in Latin America and elsewhere — have moved to Florida because they don’t want to live under the economic policies that the left is increasingly embracing in this country. Between 2016 and 2020, President Trump significantly improved his standing among Latino voters. That’s a reflection of both his hard work to reach out to those communities and the Democrats’ hard turn to the left.”
We must not however, fall into the same trap as the Democrats in playing the identity politics card, even if it benefits us. It is a greasy slope that leads to ideological perdition.
Scott: “President Trump had incredible success in Florida because his message resonated with this diverse coalition of voters who don’t neatly fit into the pundits’ and pollsters’ conception of the political world. And he worked to earn votes in my state — a necessity that Florida Democrats seemingly forgot about decades ago. All this explains why the success of Florida Republicans, including the president, is a model for Republicans across the country.” He makes great points. Let’s hope the party hierarchy is listening.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on December 7, 2020. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com [4] and is used by permission.
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