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Trump Vastly Expanded the GOP, but the Party Must Do More to Survive

November 16, 2020 By Richard C. Young

Guests reach out to shake hands with President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the Hispanic Heritage Month Reception Friday evening, Sept. 27, 2019, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

At LewRockwell.com, Pat Buchanan sings the praises of President Donald Trump’s expansion of the GOP. He also notes that, even with more people voting for Trump than for any other Republican in history, Joe Biden still won the popular vote. Buchanan explains that “Demography is still destiny.” The GOP must expand its support into minority households, or suffer defeat forever. Buchanan writes (abridged):

For Republicans, the returns were mixed on Nov. 3.

Though he carried burdens unrivaled by a president since Herbert Hoover — a plague that has killed 230,000 Americans in eight months and crashed the economy to depths not seen since the ’30s.

Donald J. Trump amassed 72 million votes, the largest total in Republican Party history.

And while he lost the popular vote, Trump held off the predicted “blue wave.” He added seats in the House, a feat rivaling that of Richard Nixon, who added 22 GOP House seats while losing to JFK in 1960. And with Trump at the top of the GOP ticket, the Senate remained Republican.

Even Joe Biden’s 5 million vote margin was a tribute to Trump, who brought out friends and foes in astounding numbers, while Biden sheltered in place in his Wilmington basement reading cliches from his teleprompter.

Democrats, however, had great successes as well, reconstructing their “blue wall,” by winning all 18 states they had won in each of the presidential elections from 1992 through 2012.

Even Joe Biden’s 5 million vote margin was a tribute to Trump, who brought out friends and foes in astounding numbers, while Biden sheltered in place in his Wilmington basement reading cliches from his teleprompter.

The existential GOP problem? The party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections.

Consistent and growing popular vote majorities for Democrats must one day translate into consistent and permanent electoral vote majorities.

Democrats remain today the minorities’ party and Republicans the party of America’s white majority.

White folks are roughly 60% of the U.S. population, though closer to 70% of the electorate. Both those figures, however, are slowly and steadily falling.

Demography is still destiny.

Republicans are going to have to grow their share of the white vote and their share of the Hispanic, Black and Asian vote or their future will begin to look like California today, where the Grand Old Party does not hold a single statewide office.

The top 1% of the population in income pays more taxes than the bottom 90%.

The top 50% of the population pays 97% of the income taxes, while the bottom 50% pays only 3%.

If people who receive a cornucopia of benefits pay no income taxes, then why would they vote against a party that promises them still more benefits, to be paid for by raising the income taxes of someone else?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

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