I think I said it before, gen z men are the most conservative young voters since the silent generation
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That would be seriously retarded. The phony family value Evangelical playbook of decades past is dead and gone, most visibly because a guy on his third marriage that many people believed shagged a porn star is the most beloved politician in America. I'm a conservative Christian and I'm fine with that. Not that I'm even sure that Trump slept with Stormy Daniels, but I'd rather someone's perfidy is known and repented rather than hidden in the B-list celebrity privileges of megachurch preachers.
More importantly, Trump's politics are pragmatic, and I'm starting to wonder how and why ideologues ever gained prominence in the party, let alone retained control. Inflation is up? Drill baby drill. Hurricane victims in need of assistance? Call up Elon and ask him for help. Companies are outsourcing? Club them over the head with tariffs. Iraq was going to be a difficult slog? Dumb idea, don't do it. People like tanks? Put them in the inaugural parade. Abortion is a divisive topic? Kick it to the states. Muslims upset about Gaza? End the war fast. People feel disconnected from politicians? Rally with them every single day, buy them Chick-fil-a, serve them McDonalds, listen to their stories and address their needs.
Just take care of your people. How on earth did we not demand this of our politicians earlier??
I really do hope the pragmatic politics become standard going forward but I never put it past them to drop the ball. I don't have a good sense for if Trump's impact is enough to be a permanent, generational shift in the GOP or if they'll go back to McCain/Romney picks as soon as they can.
No way we go back to the likes of Romney. That's actually impossible.
Again, I hope you're right. But if you had to pick someone right now to follow up Trump, who would it be? So far Vance is decent but I don't see anyone who can drive voter turnout the way Trump did.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see politics return to position vs. position debates instead of cults of personality, but I'm not that much of an optimist.
Vance is good. I think he's a little slick sometimes but I trust his basic idea for the country so far. He may be the heir apparent. There was also another impressive legislator on Trump's short list, his name escapes me at the moment.
I'm not blustering when I say another Romney is impossible. The online conservative network IS the conservative movement now, and they are never going back. Once the imp is summoned he cannot be made to cease.
Nobody can drive turnout like Trump, but they shouldn't need to. The Democrat field is utterly barren because their toxic ideology drives out all reasonable prospects by the time they get to the national stage. Shapiro is the best they have, and he covered up a murder.