What is a political party? Thanks to the intensity of the internal conflict between the Republicans, you can conclude that it is a church. Senator Ted Cruz is one of the leading votes of the faction that wants to treat the Republican party as a confession – singing to the choir, condemning heretics and condemning sinners to hell.
It seems that this is partly a belief, and partly calculated political calculations on the part of Senator Cruz. He is fully convinced that the Republican can win in 2016 by energizing the base. “Evangelical voting,” said the Cruz Strategist The Cook Political Report, “is the greatest incapable joint of voters – this is a frikes ocean.” Convinced that the evangelical voters stayed at home in the last election, but they can be aroused by a sectarian candidate, Cruz initiated to Washington in 2013. In 2013, Plusing Fire not only in Democrats, but also on his own party. Everyone was part of the “Washington cartel”, he thundered. Republican leaders were not only feeble or ineffective – they were treacherous.
On the way to Cruz’s plan, terrible things happened to ride the popular indignation of his own party of the republican president: Donald Trump offered an even more attractive infusion of improper targeted anger and indignation. If the Republican Party is now kidnapped by Trumpkins – and I really pray that this is not the case – Senator Ted Cruz is not able to protest. He helped put Tinder for this auto de fe.
This does not mean that the Republicans enjoyed flawless leadership in Obama’s years – but that’s not the point. Cruz accused the Republican Chamber and Management of the Senate and almost all his colleagues of cowardice and shock absorber. It was, not a solid Cruz conservatism, he alienated senators. All this was a carefully chorea prelude to his offer for the great down of white, evangelical Protestants, whom he hopes to inspire his standard.
So what is the political party for? It seems that the Democrats have long decided that their party is a coalition of interest groups: black, women, gays, Latinos, Asians and relationships. Over the past few decades, the Republican Party has rejected the identity policy for a smaller government and greater individual freedom, a more free enterprise, mighty national defense and classic values. The party I joined did not try to confirm the interests of white people, native or Christian conservatives. He was open to everyone who shared their rules.
Trump represents the total fall of republicanism in favor of nativism, protectionism (which worked so well with Smoot-Hawley) and American-style putinism. If he were nominated, he would be heavily defeated. Trump is seen more adverse than any other candidate, including Hillary Clinton. He offers an identity policy for white people, but even most of the white people don’t despise it. For what is worth, I could not vote for him, for these and many other reasons.
The Cruza strategy is slightly subtle, but also includes polarization of the nation – and thus digging it in “values ​​in New York”. As Eliiana Johnson from the National Review described, Cruz’s theory is based on faith in “missing evangelicals”. Many pixels were spent on voters who stayed at home in 2012, when 42.5 percent of eligible voters refrain from voting, millions of African Americans, Latinos and others are also on the blind list.
The case of a wave of previously unrestrained evangelicals accumulating for polls for Cruz is at best shaky. Take into account that the last time the Republican won the presidential election (2004), the evangelicals accounted for 23 percent of the electorate, and Bush won 78 percent of his votes. In 2012 they constituted 26 percent of voters, and Romney won the same share, 78 percent, but still lost. In addition, the decrease in election attendance in 2012 was much less clear in the states of battlefield, which really resolved elections than in places such as Oklahoma, West Virginia and Arkansas, where the Evangelical Wave would not change the result.
Or consider the sobering possibility that evangelicals are not so conservative. Among the Gospel voters, according to the NBC survey, Trump supports 37 percent, with only 20 percent of Cruz support. When he watched Jerry Falwell Jr. He supports Donald Trump, Senator Cruz saw his theory circulated drainage.
The appeal to groups as groups is the bane of contemporary politics. Running to penetrating references to “base” voters on both sides destroys our national unity. To succeed, the Republican Party will have to win moderate voices, as well as conservatives in states such as Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Colorado and Nevada. Conservative can do it with a uncomplicated pitch for Americans as Americans. Whatever less is unworthy – and it is unlikely to succeed.
