Trump separated himself from the pack in 2016 by campaigning on building the wall, deporting illegals, draining the swamp, and locking up Hillary.
If he tries running on the same or similar issues this time around, the stench of bullshit will be too much to ignore except for his most devoted followers.
IMO, he'll probably run on "I'm not Biden," and I'm sure with how bad Biden is, he'll win just off of that.
The sad part is, this will be another wasted election to try and get an actual change candidate who won't sell out as much. Too bad Rand Paul has a terrible sense of what grassroots Republican voters want. Last time around, he was pandering to try in bring in more black voters. Fucking eh, what a mess.
Immigration will continue to be an issue, same with deporting illegals, which will be made easier by the depression we are in.
The economic depression will be the next issue.
Actually locking up some people from the current regime will actually be popular.
Getting the US out of a proxy war with Russia will be a successful campaign, and he's one of the only presidents in recent history with a real track record to prove that he can avoid war.
You're completely wrong on Rand Paul, and pulling blacks and latinos away from the democrats is actually a lethal strategy for the Dems, because they need near unanimous support. If black support for Dems dropped down to 70%, the Democrats literally couldn't win an election. And there is genuine room among blacks and latinos on: immigration, crime, and family values.
Mass deportations of illegals is what actually got Trump most of his support among blacks, because illegals are taking poor black men's jobs even more than they are taking poor white men's jobs.
Trump was the most pro-black republican president and he only pulled about 2% more black votes after all he did for them.
Chasing the black vote has always been a losing strategy for republicans and it just turns off White voters - the people actually voting for republicans.
Neither of these is true.
First off, it doesn't piss off white voters, white people really don't care that some people appeal to black voters. It's not a zero sum game.
Second, Trump wasn't anywhere near the most 'pro-black' or even the most popular among blacks. Instead, some of the polling shows that the gender divide was a hell of an issue. 45% support among black men, and 2% support among black women. Black National Socialism regarding George Floyd was a major effort to contain losses of the black vote. And we're assuming that what we have as accurate black vote statistics isn't entirely fraudulent (which it clearly fucking is given that it was predominantly ultra-blue urban cores which perpetuated most of the voter fraud, using dead, moved, or non-existent black voters). And like I said, the things swaying black votes are things that are already present in Conservative talking points, so there's not even an argument to change. All that said, support for Democrats among blacks continues to steadily decline since it's peak in the 70's.
Yes, it does. You can ask around in White Nat forums for people who voted for him in 2016 and if they voted for him again in 2020. The only reason they voted for him in the first place is because they thought he was pro-White. Once he exposed himself, the incentive to vote for him was gone.
In fact, the White voters he lost would've probably pushed him passed the margin of cheating.
And I'm not even going to debate the failures of chasing the black vote. That's well documented since republicans lost the black vote. Black people who would consider voting republican are already doing so and they're doing so because they believe in the principles of Conservatism.
Only leftists and insane shitlibs ever thought the man who won Jessie Jackson's rainbow award was specifically pro-White. He's not even conservative. These are mainstream media talking points. It's a joke how Chris Wallace repeatedly asks him to denounce white supremacist views (which is the same as white-nat to normies), but he always does denounce it.
In real life, there's definitely Whites who hate the Platinum plan and other appeals to the Black community, but that's not going to stop us voting for him. It's a complete non-issue.
If you are actually a legitimate White Nationalist, I hope you take what's discussed online with a grain of salt. Most of those places are honeypots for social justice activists conducting "research" on hate speech, if not run by the FBI itself. (even if you mod one, you can't guarantee that your most active users aren't feds or whatever unless you know them in person)
The idea that White Nationalist support for Trump, which is statistically insignificant due to being smaller than the confidence interval in any of his polls, should be taken as a representation of a lack of support among white people is retarded.
I don't even know how any WN's would have come to that conclusion anyway. The man has a long history of supporting black causes and being opposed to racism, even going back to the Central Park murder. It's like claiming Barry Goldwater was a staunch white nationalist. The only way you get to that idea is solely by listening to Leftist media.
Besides, there are fewer White Nationalists in America than gays. I know white racists who wouldn't support White Nationalism because it's stupid. There might be as many transpeople as WN's.
As far as anyone can tell, white support for Donald Trump hasn't really changed. White Leftists (including WNs) are obviously some of his biggest detractors. His biggest lack of support among white voters are white college educated suburban women (even the married ones). Exactly zero of whom are WNs. Being mean on Twitter did more to hurt his support among whites than anything else because of the sensibilities of middle-class suburban white women.
Yeah, and you can expand that number.
Trump's idea of winning over black voters was the platinum plan.
Can there be at least one party that isn't trying to funnel white blood and treasure to the appeasement of black people?
This one might be easier said than done, due to the strangeness of the issue. Basically, everything we have seen thus far show that the majority of people, Left, Right, and Center, acknowledge that we are in a proxy war with Russia, but also say “That’s a good thing.” Their only real concerns I have found come from “What if it goes nuclear?” and “I like weapons, but why so much money?”
It’s one of those that I know rankles people on this board, but all of the evidence show the average American is very much on team “Fuck Russia, Slava Ukraine”. Before we continue, it is worth pointing out that while feelings are strong, it’s not so strong it will ruin anyones support. Which is why Rand Paul can take the radical (to the average) opinion of stopping support and not really move the needle on his popularity.
If Trump, or anyone else, wants to fulfill the standard of stopping the war, they would have do these things (as I have found):
Continue the weapon shipment, or even increase them. As most people I have talked to are in favor of even heavier firepower like tanks, jets, and cruise missiles. One absolute mad lad I met even suggested giving Ukraine their nukes back, but that was radical in the other direction from what I have found.
Stop money payments. It’s easy to corruption away money, a lot harder with physical supplies.
While finding peace is preferable, not at the expense of throwing Ukraine to the wolves. So any peace can’t let Ukraine just be turned into some rump state, and must be allowed to be a threat to Russia long term.
Russia must bleed. As long as Putin is in charge, people want to see him swing from a post, and won’t take no for an answer. Or at least isolate him from the global community (which I am sure the Ruskies are also fine with).
Make it obvious to China that if they try anything with Taiwan, they will suffer the same fate as above, or worse. Since most people still see China as the larger threat.
Very tall order, might be impossible. But if anyone can do it, it would probably be Trump (since he calmed both N.Korea and the Middle East), and not enough people think he is some Russian puppet to keep him from election.
Keep in mind that talking to people in real life (or on forums linked to their real identity) is going to introduce natural bias, because we HAVE to support Ukraine. You're not hearing opposition. If Ukraine wasn't the Current Thing the media was telling us to care about, you'd meet more people who don't care about either of those countries and don't want us involved. You might even find a few who like or respect Putin. But those opinions are unacceptable for patriotic Americans to have.
But these are people who distrust the media and wouldnt piss on a reporter if they were on fire. It has nothing to do with Ukraine being the Current Thing. It has to do with people genuinely enraged, mostly driven by them seeking out their own information with direct battlefield video and reporting (that never even touches the media in many cases), Many of them even go further than what the Media says.
In fact, I know people who were being tepid in the days before the invasion saying that it was a bad idea to keep poking the bear and that we should back off. Then the second Russian tanks rolled across the border, they said "I changed my mind. BURN RUSSIA TO THE GROUND!" I have also heard many a "the line must be drawn here" and comparing it to the Nazi's invading Poland, and how the French and British were cowards for not doing more and "We are going to show those Limey bastards and Frogs what a real ally looks like."
Same with the polling and surveys on the matter. Its one thing when you get a contentious issue, or one that is controversial. But when there is almost 70% approval across the board, that is not controversial and shows a definitive political direction.
I know its not what they want to hear, but the people on here are actually in the minority on the issue, by far.
EDIT: Another thing I just thought of. The media has been through about 3 or 4 different "Current Things" since Ukraine was invaded, but the support for Ukraine has remained high. Which tells me that rather than it being a media propped up "Current Thing", it was a genuine reaction that the media just happened to be on the same side as the general public on.