Democrats Can Take Votes Away From the GOP Among the Evangelical Right Wing

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/03/beating-religious-right-at-its-own-game.html

Sinclair Lewis said it better than I can: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” Bjorn Phillip Beer, Christian Democrats of America

The Democratic Party needs to have some resources in place to help candidates figure out how to navigate through all of the possibilities. I tend to think that it is more likely to pick up voters out of this constituency by connecting conservative politicians to events like January 6th, or to white supremacist events and persons, or to previous remarks that put them among the "Vlad the Great" crowd. It would be a relatively small cost with a high yield. With the polarization we are now seeing in this country, flipping 5% of the Evangelical vote, helping another 3% or 4% vote for a third-party candidate, and getting another 2% or 3% to stay home will be decisive. It could help Democrats like Raphael Warnock hold his seat in Georgia, and pick up seats in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.

Plan ahead and make this kind of agenda part of the 2024 Presidential campaign. Republicans are constantly working to make inroads into Democratic constituencies, and it worked for them in 2016, when the lower turnout of African American voters for Hillary Clinton made a huge difference. This kind of strategy could also affect multiple local elections where, as Beer says in his piece, the politics have been "like the Hindenburg landing."