We cats got a preview of the wreckage the GOP will leave behind when it ceases to exist after Trump.
Jennifer Rubin, our current Republican friend who we're sure will go back to not being our friend once Benedict Donald has faded from the scene (see: Wallace, Nicolle; Navarro, Ana; Frum, David; Wilson, Rick), has provided a succinct overview of polling that spells a pretty effective end to the Party of Lincoln as we know it. The ideological cracks showing in the GOP's facade will reach a breaking point — in the next year, due to impeachment and the election — and all because of the mobster the party was cowed into nominating in 2016.
For the breakdown of the numbers, click here. But here's a summary, plus a prediction:
"Trump...is hugely dependent on the overwhelming support of white evangelicals...[which] makes evangelicals out of step with the majority of Americans on everything from immigration to climate change to impeachment to beliefs about gender and race...Their burning resentment toward 'elites' masks a more fundamental alienation from a majority of all Americans.
"Trump and the GOP's hyper-dependence on white evangelicals is an electoral problem, given the declining number of white evangelicals who are aging and seeing a significant drop-off among millennials. Each election, it becomes harder to win outside deep-red environs.
"In sum, we may be 'two Americas,' but they are not equal. Trump and Republicans' segment is smaller than the rest, and is shrinking over time..."
Add to this the drama that's sure to come over the next calendar year, and we think America will witness the break-up of one of its major political parties.
The GOP will split into the Know-Nothings — white evangelicals who, as noted above, are the only Trump-can-do-no-wrong voters in America — and the Whigs, a faction that will be made up of foreign-policy Republicans, Bush Republicans, pro-choice Republicans, and non-hater Republicans. Hey, they're out there — there just aren't a lot of them.
You read it here first. In the meantime, for all the angst that the media are trying to gin up about our 2020 Presidential field, we cats are sanguine about our primary process, and we PURR.
(IMAGE: Adam Zyglis)
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