Read this article in a Kentucky paper about a progressive group going after Mitch McConnell's wife.
In a Feb. 14 Twitter message, Progress says: "This woman has the ear of
(Sen. McConnell)—she's his wife. May explain why your job moved to
China!"
She's of Chinese heritage.
Identity politics. It's ugly and it's bull shit. I see it up here in Quebec every day.
I keep hearing the GOP needs to 'brown' and appeal to Hispanics and this culture and that demographic. Apparently, they have to chase race.
No.
What they need to to is sell ideas. Sell values. Principles. Policies.
Build it and they will come.
I am a simple man. I do not think the Republicans need a "Big Tent", I think it needs to decide what its core principles are and live up to them and express them, allowing voters who agree with them at the moment to support them. I believe that the concept of multi-party political systems means more political parties, not less (and not just two vying for the same voters), with core principles and values which should result in temporary coalitions as the need arises. Nothing is more undemocratic than a single party system.
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