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EJ Dionne
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The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base.
Very good piece from @RonBrownstein. A lot of Bidens spending would help people in small cities and rural areas. Will material benefits to Trump voters cut GOP margins the partys strongholds? A big test.
The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base
Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Bidens infrastructure plan.
theatlantic.com
8:22 AM · Apr 10, 2021
EJ Dionne
@EJDionne
The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base.
Very good piece from @RonBrownstein. A lot of Bidens spending would help people in small cities and rural areas. Will material benefits to Trump voters cut GOP margins the partys strongholds? A big test.
The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base
Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Bidens infrastructure plan.
theatlantic.com
8:22 AM · Apr 10, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/bidens-infrastructure-bill-would-help-gop-base/618549/
With their opposition to President Joe Bidens infrastructure plan, Republicans are doubling down on a core bet theyve made for his presidency: that the GOP can maintain support among its key constituencies while fighting programs that would provide those voters with tangible economic assistance.
Last month, every House and Senate Republican opposed Bidens massive $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, even though it delivered significant benefits to working-class white voters, the GOPs foundational voting bloc, including increased health-care subsidies and expanded tax credits for families with children. That pattern is repeating with the infrastructure plan, even though it directs billions of dollars to rural communities, which are indispensable to Republican political fortunes.
That resistance represents a political gamble, because the proposed benefitsincluding $1,400 stimulus checks, and rural broadband in the infrastructure planare large enough and visible enough that voters may be more likely to feel them in their daily life than most legislative actions. Republicans are going to have to explain how they are voting against the interests of their base, because I think there [would] be meaningful impacts on their voters from the plans provisions, says Jeff Link, a Democratic consultant who led a research project last year that tried to improve his partys performance among rural voters.
For now, at least, the GOP appears utterly undeterred. Republican consultants Ive spoken with express confidence that, despite the two plans benefits, they can discredit themeither by focusing on elements of the plans that may be unpopular with conservative audiences, or by changing the subject to culture-war confrontations, such as the surge of undocumented minors at the border.
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Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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I know a lot of comfortable farmers who wouldn't have a pot to piss in if not for subsidies.
Midnight Writer
Apr 2021
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kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)1. I just wonder if propaganda and lies will win out in the end?
I worry the cult is so strong that people no longer can discern fact from fiction/lies. Hopefully the neurolinguistic programming can be overcome.
The dont believe what you see with your lying eyes or hear with your lying ears is appalling.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)2. I already know the answer
The cult won't care. They will laugh at the Democrats as a bunch of cucks who thought they could be bought off.
Why do we still think the rise of Trump had anything to do with economic anxieties when studies have shown that his most ardent supporters are better off than average?
jimfields33
(15,974 posts)4. The bill is going to be voted on in the summer
A long time to see what will happen.
Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)3. Yeah, that's normal
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)5. I know a lot of comfortable farmers who wouldn't have a pot to piss in if not for subsidies.
They always vote Republican, and always brag about living off the land, being self made men, not needing handouts like those "in the city".
PortTack
(32,796 posts)6. Red welfare